In June 2023, this film was screened at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in observation of the sixtieth anniversary of George Wallace's infamous and unsuccessful "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" to try to obstruct desegregation. The building where it was screened, Foster Auditorium, was the actual location of that incident--in 1963, it had been the site of student registration, so it was where Wallace stood to try to bar Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling as UA students. In 2023 it is the site of the Malone-Hood Plaza (in honor of James Hood and Vivian Malone) and the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower (in honor of the first Black student to enroll in the university).
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963, one month after the release of this film.
This film is included in, "The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates", released by the Criterion Collection, spine #808.