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CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MARCH (TV)
Summary
A special broadcast reviewing the day's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Walter Cronkite tells the story of America's biggest civil rights demonstration with clips of the day's highlights. Includes the baritone Leon Bibb and Lena Horne, and continues with background on the four previous marches on Washington; Marian Anderson sings; Walter Reuther, Roy Wilkins, and Martin Luther King, Jr. speak; and Mahalia Jackson sings. Robert Pierpoint interviews Sen. Strom Thurmond and Sen. Philip Hart. Concludes with John F. Kennedy's meeting with the ten leaders of the march.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: August 28, 1963 7:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T77:0168
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: U S - Civil rights; Gospel music; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; African-American Collection - News/Talk
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1963
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Leslie Midgley … Executive Producer
- William B. Crawford … Producer
- Norman Gorin … Director
- Walter Cronkite … Reporter
- Eric Sevareid … Reporter
- Robert Pierpoint … Reporter
- Marian Anderson
- Philip Hart
- Lena Horne
- Mahalia Jackson
- John F. Kennedy
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Walter Reuther
- Strom Thurmond
- Roy Wilkins