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Primary (1960)
This landmark documentary chronicles the 1960 Wisconsin primary between the two Democratic front-runners vying for the presidential nomination — John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Directed by Robert Drew, 1960, 1 h
Special Guest: Paul Stekler, Emmy, Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and Sundance Special Jury Award-winning political filmmaker (George Wallace: Settin’ The Woods on Fire, Eyes on the Prize II, Vote for Me: Politics in America), Chair of the Department of Radio, Film, and Television at the University of Texas at Austin. Founder of Center for Politics and Governance at UT. Stekler was named Mentor of the Year in 2014 by Variety Magazine.