With Adventures on the New Frontier, where could someone see it?
It isn’t on these discs. No. The History Channel is running four of my programs on the anniversary of his death. November 22nd. That will be the first airing of Adventures in forty-some years. It’s not a great film but it is the first film to show a President really at work in the Oval Office. Like Primary (like any documentary, really), it was unclear how the crisis would resolve itself. What was your ultimate concern about the stand-off between Wallace and Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s efforts to end segregation in Alabama. Particularly when there was a proclamation to nationalize the National Guard, did you fear that things could get quite out of hand or did it seem to be the necessary step to stabilize the situation? I thought that it was very tricky and I couldn’t imagine the outcome. If the Guard had been called in the wrong way, there would have been another riotous situation like there was in Mississippi and if you didn’t call out the Guard, probably the governor would win
