Clinton and the Law: Part 2

Duration: 33

Genre: Documentary | Educational

Creator: Columbia Broadcasting System

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Depicts the problems involved and the ways citizens reacted when the high school at Clinton, Tennessee, attempted to admit Negro students as a result of Supreme court decisions. Gives interviews with persons injured in the fights surrounding the closing of the Clinton high school. Shows the intervention of the FBI and the Federal marshalls and the arrest of several persons accused of violating an injunction issued by Judge Taylor. Concludes that this is an examination after the facts of the Clinton, Tennessee, incident. Presents Edward R. Murrow as the interviewer.

Complete Record: Depicts the problems involved and the ways citizens reacted when the high school at Clinton, Tennessee, attempted to admit Negro students as a result of Supreme court decisions. Gives interviews with persons injured in the fights surrounding the closing of the Clinton high school. Shows the intervention of the FBI and the Federal marshalls and the arrest of several persons accused of violating an injunction issued by Judge Taylor. Concludes that this is an examination after the facts of the Clinton, Tennessee, incident. Presents Edward R. Murrow as the interviewer., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.