Running with Jesse

February 7, 1989

Season 1989: Episode 4

An inside look at the historic 1988 presidential campaign of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Frontline profiles the Jackson strategy, his relationship with the press and his difficulties with the Jewish community and New York’s Mayor Koch. The program chronicles the hopes and the hype of a campaign that became a crusade.

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