The Making of the President : The 1960s

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE PRESENTATION, historical & unbiased politically
WELL DONE! 3 separate documentaries, award-winning, based on Theodore H. White's books, one a Pulitzer Prize winner. Each feature is 79 min. and is a continual look at elections via historic archival film footage. Very nostalgic for those of us old enough to have watched 1960's election news. The footage, some a half-century old, explains the predominance of B/W. The final '68 disc has the early period-capable color. You see it as all Americans (the world) saw it on TV. Wonderful. When the actual footage sound is muted, excellent narration fills the audio.

SUBTITLES exist for all 3 features, PLUS the bonus films. Viewer's guide adds fun campaign historical info. Remember Pat Paulsen?

1 THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1960
Eisenhower will be replaced by whom? Footage goes from primary campaigns to conventions and finally the fall election JFK wins. This period of time is when campaigns/conventions were more than money & TV ads. The conventions actually chose a...

So much political history. Wish the sound was better
Has very interesting history but sound makes it difficult to understand what some of the charaters are saying. So many historical faces but often not names. Names as subtitles would have been helpful with position title. Still, worth the time to watch. Really learn at lot about our presidents and what they went through to reach the office of President. You also learn about our relationship with other countries plus other additonal info.

Takes you back to a simpler era.
Especially found the bonus material regarding the JFK tribute at the '64 convention very moving, in view of the upcoming 50th anniversary of that day in Dallas........

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