Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt; 207

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Title:
Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt; 207
Description:
Guests: President John F. Kennedy. Program opens with a ten minute segment in which President Kennedy is interviewed one-on-one by Eleanor Roosevelt, discussing the advent of the Peace Corps. The opening segment was recorded at the White House in Washington, DC on 3/5/1961, the day the President issued the executive order creating the Peace Corps. Balance of program was recorded in WTTG Studios in Washington, DC. Eleanor Roosevelt moderates, guests: Senator Humbert Humphrey, (D, Minnesota) chief supporter of legislation for the permanence and expansion of the Peace Corps, Chairman of Disarmament Subcommittee of Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Professor Samuel Hays, author of The Peace Corps Task Force Report, requested by President Kennedy, and a social scientist in the Department of Economics, at the University of Michigan. Senteca Kajubi, from Makerere College,University of East Africa in Uganda, which will receive the first group of Peace Corps teachers, presently at the University of Chicago; R. Sargent Shriver, Chairman of Chicago Board of Education, and newly named Director of the Peace Corps. Eleanor Roosevelt hosts a discussion on new legislation to create a Peace Corps and the objectives of the Peace Corp program. Prior to the group panel discussion, Mrs. Roosevelt interviews President John F. Kennedy at the White House on his view of what the Peace Corps will represent in the international policies of the United States as well as the logistics of training for those chosen to serve. Panelists Senator Hubert Humphrey ? D Minnesota; Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps; Professor Samuel Hayes, Social Scientist at the University of Michigan; and Senteca Kajubi, visiting student from the University of East Africa in Uganda discuss the objectives of the Peace Corps in its beginning and the legislation in process to make it a permanent program. Panel discussion begins with each panelist stating the objectives of th program and the mutual benefits to students, host countries and the United States. Financing and organization is covered with an emphasis on how existing United Nations and charitable organization programs will be involved with implementation. Training and selection of volunteers is discussed in relation to ensuring that the young people involved will be welcomed representatives of the United States.
Producer:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Host:
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Contributor:
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Contributor:
Noble, Paul
Contributor:
Shriver, Sargent
Contributor:
Kajubi, Senteca
Contributor:
Hayes, Samuel
Contributor:
Humphrey, Humbert
Contributor:
Morgenthau, Henry, III
Contributor:
Michaelis, Diana Tead
Contributor:
Dunham, Susan
Contributor:
Dery, Joan
Contributor:
Fuchs, Lawrence
Contributor:
Reubens, Beryl
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Contributor:
Jones, Bob
Date:
February 28, 1993
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Series:
WGBH > Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt
Subjects:
Women
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-pc2t43j82z
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