- Title: F-2326
- Summary: DECISION MACARTHUR: DOCUMENTARY ON MACARTHUR COVERING THE KOREA YEARS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. DO NOT SELL CLIPS WITH NARRATION. MOS ONLY OR ORIGINAL SOUND.
- Description:05:52:04 - CU BUST OF GENERAL MACARTHUR SHOWDOWN WITH WHITE HOUSE. THIS SEGMENT IS ABOUT THE CRISIS CAUSED BY MACARTHUR BECAUSE HE WANTED TO RUN THE KOREAN WAR WITHOUT INSTRUCTION FROM THE POLITICIANS. HE WAS CONSEQUENTLY RELIEVED FROM COMMAND BY TRUMAN. 05:52:17 - MS CAPITOL BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. 05:52:21 - MS NEWSMEN WITH FLASH CAMERAS READY 05:52:24 - CU MACARTHUR IN FIELD TALKS TO GI 05:52:26 - CU WHITE HOUSE 05:52:27 - MS TRUMAN WALKS TO WHITE HOUSE WITH ENTOURAGE 05:52:40 - LS MACARTHUR, THE UNDISPUTED LEADER OF 83 MILLION ADORING JAPANESE, WAVES HAT AT JAPANESE PEOPLE & CHILDREN WAVING US FLAGS 05:52:58 - CU CONGRESSMAN JOE MARTIN SPEAKS ABOUT IMPEACHING TRUMAN 05:53:03 - MS NEWSPAPERS ROLL ON THE PRESSES 05:53:16 - CU TRUMAN, SEATED AT DESK, TELLS ABOUT HIS ROLE & DECISION ON THAT DAY IN 1950, AND WHAT TO DO WITH AN INSUBORDINATE GENERAL 05:53:38 - DECISION - THE CONFLICT OF HARRY S. TRUMAN 05:53:53 - "I WANT THE PEOPLE TO KNOW ME AS I AM, AND THE PRESIDENCY AS I HAVE KNOWN IT" 05:54:03 - THE LEGEND OF DOUGLAS MACARTHUR PART I 05:54:20 - MS MACARTHUR, LEADER OF UN TROOPS, REVIEWS KOREAN TROOPS 05:54:26 - CU UN FLAG 05:54:34 - MONTAGE NORTH KOREAN TANKS & TROOPS INVADE S. KOREA 05:54:59 - MONTAGE KOREAN REFUGEES FILL ROADS & RAIL TRACKS 05:55:04 - MONTAGE UN DELEGATES ASSEMBLE 05:55:17 - MS US TROOPS BOARD TROOPSHIP 05:55:20 - MONTAGE TROOPS FROM ALL NATIONS & THEIR FLAGS 05:55:33 - CU TRUMAN NEXT TO LARGE PHOTO OF MACARTHUR ON SCREEN 05:55:41 - CU TRUMAN EXPLAINS HIS ACTIONS FOR SENDING TROOPS AND NARRATES 05:56:02 - MONTAGE CHIANG KAI-SHEK EX CHINESE LEADER NOW LEADER OF FORMOSA 05:56:56 - MONTAGE FORMOSAN TROOPS IN REVIEW & TRAINING 05:57:10 - CU FORMOSOAN FEMALE TROOPS COCK & FIRE HAND GUNS 05:57:32 - CU TRUMAN AS HE CONTINUES TO NARRATE THE SERIES OF EVENTS 05:57:35 - CU MACARTHUR & WIFE IN EASY CHAIRS 05:57:37 - CU MACARTHUR KISSES HAND OF MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK 05:57:45 - CU MACARTHUR WITH CHIANG KAI-SHEK 05:57:58 - CU TRUMAN SAYING CHIANG HAD THE NOTION THAT "HE WAS THE SAVIOR OF CHINA" BUT SAYS "HE WAS THE SAVIOR AS LONG AS WE FURNISH THE TROOPS." 05:58:43 - MS AVERALL HARRIMAN & MACARTHUR, TRUMAN EXPLAINS, HE SENT HARRIMAN TO TELL MACARTHUR HIS MISSION WAS ONLY KOREA NOT CHINA 05:58:56 - CU AVERELL HARRIMAN EXPLAINS WHAT HE WAS ASKED TO DO 05:59:33 - MS MACARTHUR WAVES FAREWELL TO HARRIMAN WHO CONTINUES TO NARRATE 05:59:37 - CU HARRIMAN SAYS MACARTHUR STATED "I AM A GOOD SOLDIER AND I WILL FOLLOW ORDERS." 05:59:43 - CU TRUMAN SARCASTICALLY DISPUTES THE "GOOD SOLDIER" REMARK 06:00:24 - CU TRUMAN SAYS "HE CONTROLLED HIS FEELINGS ABOUT REPLACING MACARTHUR WITH BRADLEY AFTER MACARTHUR SUGGESTED AN ATTACK ON CHINA 06:00:44 - CU MACARTHUR ON WARSHIP DURING SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON INCHON, KOREA 06:00:48 - MONTAGE BATTLE WAGONS FIRE BROADSIDES ON INCHON 06:01:09 - CU HARRIMAN PRAISES THE INCHON LANDINGS WHICH TURNED THE TIDE OF THE WAR 06:01:18 - MONTAGE LANDING SHIPS GO ASHORE AT INCHON 06:01:36 - MONTAGE BATTLE SCENES AS UN FORCES PUSH AHEAD 06:01:40 - MS SOLDIER WITH RIFLE CROUCHES AS SHELL EXPLODES VERY CLOSE 06:02:07 - CU HARRIMAN SAYS "MACARTHUR PAID NO ATTENTION TO WARNING THAT CHINA FORCES WERE GATHERING ALONG BORDER" 06:02:56 - CU TRUMAN SAYS HE WANTED MACARTHUR HOME FOR TALKS BUT MACARTHUR ALWAYS HAD EXCUSES, SO HE WOULD GO TO HIM BECAUSE OF RUMORS THAT CHINESE WOULD ATTACK KOREA 06:03:04 - MONTAGE CHINESE TANKS TROOPS & WEAPONS 06:03:13 - CU THE PRESIDENTIAL PLANE "INDEPENDENCE" 06:03:30 - MS TRUMAN & MACARTHUR SHAKE HANDS AT WAKE IS AIRPORT 06:04:14 - CU MACARTHUR & BRADLEY 06:04:20 - CU HARRIMAN THEN TRUMAN WERE CONVINCED BY MACARTHUR THAT CHINA WOULD NOT ATTACK AND IF THEY DID THEY WOULD BE SLAUGHTERED. HE WAS WRONG 06:05:02 - CU MAO TSE TUNG IN ARCTIC GEAR 06:05:11 - MONTAGE CHINESE TANKS & TROOPS STRIKE 06:05:33 - MS TRUMAN WITH MAP OF CHINA EXPLAINS HOW FAR WE WERE PUSHED BACK 06:05:57 - MS US SOLDIER SLIDES DOWN SNOW COVERED HILL 06:06:14 - MONTAGE COLD & BATTERED UN TROOPS 06:06:34 - CU HARRIMAN COMPARES MACARTHUR'S SUCCESS AT INCHON AND TRAGIC BLUNDER WITH CHINA 06:06:39 - CU WOMAN CRIES AS HER LOVED ONE MARCHES OFF TO WAR 06:06:49 - MS WOMAN & CHILD HUG SOLDIER AT TRAIN STATION 06:07:13 - CU TRUMAN EXPLAINS MACARTHUR'S DISAGREEMENT WITH TRUMAN'S ORDER NOT TO BOMB CHINA. HE THINKS THIS WOULD DRAW RUSSIA IN, THUS, WORLD WAR III 06:07:40 - MONTAGE MAO TSE TUNG MEETS MOLOTOV AT TRAIN STATION IN RUSSIA 06:07:44 - MS RUSSIAN TROOPS AT ATTENTION 06:07:48 - CU MAO TSE TUNG 06:07:50 - MS STALIN, MAO AT SIGNING OF PACT 06:07:57 - MONTAGE MACARTHUR CLIMBS INTO JEEP & CAR 06:08:15 - CU PHOTO OF MACARTHUR'S FATHER LT. GEN. ARTHUR MACARTHUR 06:08:27 - CU TRUMAN TELLS OF A GENERAL IN THE PHILIPPINE WAR WHO SAID HE NEVER MET A MORE EGOTISTICAL MAN THAN ARTHUR MACARTHUR UNTIL HE MET DOUGLAS 06:08:32 - CU ARTHUR MACARTHUR & YOUNG DOUGLAS 06:08:52 - LS CADETS PARADE AT WEST POINT - MACARTHUR'S COMMAND 06:09:09 - MS SOLDIER HOLDS "RAINBOW DIVISION" FLAG (C. PRE WWI) 06:09:12 - MS GEN PERSHING GIVES MACARTHUR MEDAL 06:09:18 - CU 39 YEAR OLD BRIG. GEN. MACARTHUR 1939 YOUNGEST LEADER OF WEST POINT 06:09:24 - MS MACARTHUR ADDRESSES CADETS 06:09:41 - MS MACARTHUR, CHIEF OF STAFF, DISPERSES 1930 "BONUS MARCHES." 06:10:03 - CU MACARTHUR MAKES SPEECH ACCEPTING "AWARD FOR HIS ACTION." 06:10:08 - MS MACARTHUR KISSED ON CHEEKS AFTER AWARD BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT 06:10:19 - MS MACARTHUR AT DESK WITH AIDE DWIGHT EISENHOWER IN MANILA 06:10:24 - CU MACARTHUR GIVES IKE PAPERS THEN ANSWERS PHONE 06:10:32 - MS JAPANESE BOMB MANILA 06:10:43 - MS MACARTHUR ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA AFTER FDR ORDERS HIM OUT OF PHILIPPINES 06:10:47 - MS PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA SING "FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW." 06:11:05 - MS MACARTHUR MAKES HIS "I SHALL RETURN" SPEECH 06:11:51 - MONTAGE MACARTHUR WALKS OFF LST AND ONTO BEACH 06:12:19 - MONTAGE MACARTHUR ACCEPTS SURRENDER OF JAPANESE ON USS MISSOURI 06:12:42 - MONTAGE MACARTHUR REVIEWS TROOPS AS TRUMAN NARRATES THAT MACARTHUR HAD THE NOTION THAT WITHOUT HIM THE WHOLE COUNTRY WOULD COLLAPSE 06:13:01 - CU TRUMAN TELLS OF STORIES FROM GIS ABOUT MACARTHUR 06:14:11 - CU PHOTO OF MACARTHUR WITH FDR 06:14:46 - MONTAGE SEN TAFT, NOLAND, BRIDGES & MCCARTHY HEADED FACTIONS THAT FAVORED ALL OUT WAR WITH CHINA 06:15:11 - MS REP MARTIN READS SCATHING LETTER FROM MACARTHUR TO CONGRESS 06:15:42 - CU TRUMAN SAYS "AGAIN I WAS TEMPTED TO FIRE HIM." INSTEAD TRUMAN ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR MILITARY NEVER TO MAKE OFFICIAL STATEMENTS 06:16:07 - LS AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION 06:16:14 - CU TRUMAN TELLS THAT MACARTHUR DISOBEYED ORDER IN 2 DAYS. 06:16:23 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES "TIE MY HANDS: MACARTHUR" "TRUMAN SNUBS MACARTHUR PLEA." 06:16:59 - CU TRUMAN SAYS AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF "HE HAD TO MAKE DECISION"
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-2326