Jeffrey Katzenberg discusses his role as the “bag man,” or the cash handler, in the Lindsay campaign.
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Dinkins talks about discrimination and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, and the positive effect Mayor Lindsay had on the city in the wake of the crises.
Former Mayor David Dinkins talks frankly about the Queens snowstorm.
Writer Joyce Purnick discusses Lindsay’s role in keeping New York City calm during the night Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Former Lindsay Administration Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton places Lindsay’s service in its Historical context.
Congressman Charles Rangel discusses Lindsay’s lack of success as a Presidential candidate
In 1965, Lindsay was elected Mayor as a Republican, defeating Democrat Abraham D. Beame, and Conservative William F. Buckley, Jr.
In 1969, Lindsay was narrowly reelected on the Liberal Party line after losing the Republican primary to state Sen. John J. Marchi.
Lindsay launched a brief but unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination