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- IMDb link: 0054205
- IMDb rating: 7.1 (1,678 votes) Search
- Genres: History, Documentary, News
- Director: Robert Drew
- Cast: Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Buck Humphrey and others
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: presidential election, primary election, national film registry, speech, politics, american politics, wisconsin, senator, election, political campaign
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Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
It's the tail end of winter in 1960. U.S. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President. Wisconsin's primary - one of the few direct primaries at the time - is on April 5. We see both candidates on the road; it's retail politics, shaking hands, signing autographs, smiling. We hear part of a standard stump speech from Kennedy; we watch Humphrey talk to farmers in a rural hall. Kennedy is favored. We see his wife, his brother Robert briefly, and on election night his sisters Pat and Eunice. Jacqueline speaks a few words of Polish at a Milwaukee rally. The returns come in; it's on to Indiana and West Virginia.
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