Hubert H. Humphrey

The Wisconsin Primary of 1960 sets John Kennedy on the road to the White House.

Hubert Humphrey left behind a legacy that few presidents can match. He amassed one of the most prolific legislative records in senate history — from Medicare to the Peace Corps. But Humphrey’s most significant achievements were in the area of civil and human rights. Explore his 1948 speech at the Democratic convention and his pivotal contribution to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Oscar-nominated documentary about the increasingly violent Vietnam War protests from 1963 to 1973 and how Madison, Wisconsin became a flashpoint.

After John F. Kennedy’s election and before his inauguration, filmmaker Robert Drew screened the breakthrough Drew Associates film Primary for the president-elect and his wife in West Palm Beach. Kennedy appreciated the film, so Drew proposed another, this one to document a president dealing with a crisis. Kennedy told Drew to do some test shooting to see if he could forget the camera as he had when he campaigned in Wisconsin. Drew and D. A. Pennebaker went to the White House for a two-day test shoot, during which they were given free rein to film everything that happened. During a meeting with the joint chiefs of staff, when the subject of Cuba arose, an admiral had to remind the president that the camera was there. This footage was broadcast as Adventures on the New Frontier.