Gain an in-depth look at the tumultuous presidential campaign of 1968. The election year brings a deepening sense of national crisis. When Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, and George Wallace face off in the general election, voters look for healing. Includes updated biographies on candidates who lost their party's nomination.

Having earned John F. Kennedy's trust with his 1960 campaign-trail film Primary, cinéma vérité documentarian Robert Drew expressed his desire to document a president in crisis. When African American college students Vivian Malone and James Hood prepared to enroll at the all-white University of Alabama in June 1963, governor George Wallace defied a federal court order and vowed to prevent the students' enrollment. Kennedy granted unprecedented access...