Year

1972

Video Details

25:05; color; sound; V-168 S. 1239

Description

This is a compilation of film clips involving presidential candidates. The Republicans shown in the film are Richard Nixon, Paul McClowsky and John Ashbrook. The Democrats shown are: Shirley Chisholm; Bruce Harkey; Hubert Humphrey; Henry Jackson; Edward Kennedy; John Lindsay; Eugene McCarthy; George McGovern; Wilbur Mills; Edmund Muskie; George Wallace; and Sam Yorty. Some of the clips are silent. Shirley Chisholm talks about being an African-American female presidential candidate. She declares herself as the only "unbought and unbossed" candidate in the race.

Geographic Subject

Florida
Washington (D.C.)

Personal Subject

Ashbrook, John, 1928-1982
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
Harkey, Bruce
Humphrey, Hubert, 1911-1978
Jackson, Henry, 1912-1983
Kennedy, Edward, 1932-2009
Lindsay, John, 1921-2000
McCarthy, Eugene, 1916-2005
McGovern, George, 1922-
Mills, Wilbur, 1909-1992
Muskie, Edmund, 1914-1996
Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1913-1994
Wallace, George, 1919-1998
Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998

Subject

National Democratic Party
National Republican Party
Political campaigns
Politicians
Politics
Presidential candidates
Speeches