TV Clip from "Prospects of Mankind"
"Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt" first aired on WGBH in October, 1959. The monthly series was a forum for prominent leaders and decision makers to discuss current issues with Eleanor as mediator and host. One of its programs took as its subject the Peace Corps, begun under the Kennedy administration. Eleanor discussed the organization’s formation and the duties of public service with President Kennedy. Other prominent figures in the interview included Senator Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Disarmament Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Professor Samuel Hays, Senteka Kajube of the University of East Africa, and R. Sergeant Shriver, director of the Peace Corps. "Prospects of Mankind" is both a rare assemblage of some of the most distinguished figures of the twentieth century and an example of Eleanor Roosevelt's fervent interest in world affairs during the last years of her life.
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Video courtesy of the WGBH Media Library and Archives.
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