- Title: VM-244
- Summary: HARRY TRUMAN (PT.2): SHOWS HOW TRUMAN OVERWHELMINGLY DEFEATED THOMAS DEWEY FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1948. HIGHLIGHTS OF TRUMAN'S FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES AND PROBLEMS DURING HIS SECOND TERM ARE SHOWN.
- Description:00:25:56 - TRUMAN IN TUXEDO MAKES SPEECH ABOUT ELECTION RESULTS. MAKES FUN OF NBC ANNOUNCER KELTON BARN 00:26:47 - TRUMAN TIPPING HELMET 00:27:01 - TRUMAN SHAKING HANDS WITH LITTLE GIRL 00:27:06 - TRUMAN ON WHISTLE-STOP TOUR, TRUMAN WAVES FROM BACK OF TRAIN CABOOSE 00:27:23 - TRUMAN WAVING FROM CONVERTIBLE TO CROWDS LINING PARADE ROUTE 00:27:38 - IN IOWA. TRUMAN ON PODIUM OUTDOORS CROWD SPEAKS 00:28:14 - VIEW FROM TRAIN, AS IT PULLS AWAY FROM STATION 00:28:19 - SIDE VIEW OF TRUMAN SPEAKING TO CROWD FROM TRAIN, CROWD LISTENS 00:28:27 - TRUMAN & FAMILY ON BACK OF TRAIN 00:28:32 - TRUMAN IN DETROIT GIVING SPEECH AGAINST REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED 80TH CONGRESS & TAFT-HARTLEY LAW 00:29:08 - DIESEL TRAIN, CROWD WAVING 00:29:14 - TRUMAN WALKING DOWN STAIRS 00:29:17 - ANGRY SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS WITH FLAGS IN SMALL PARADE. FORM "THE DIXIECRATS" POLITICAL PARTY 00:29:29 - SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR STROM THURMOND 00:29:34 - GROUP OF BOY SCOUTS 00:29:36 - HENRY WALLACE CAMPAIGNS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY 00:29:46 - THOMAS DEWEY EXITS CAR WITH WIFE 00:29:54 - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SIGN "TONIGHT: DEWEY, WARREN VICTORY RALLY" 00:29:55 - DEWEY WAVING AT RALLY 00:30:04 - TRUMAN CAMPAINING. SPEAKING TO CROWD; WITH GOAT; 00:30:08 - TRUMAN SHAKING HANDS WITH MINERS 00:30:14 - TRUMAN SMOKING PEACE PIPE WITH NATIVE AMERICAN INIDANS 00:30:18 - ELDERLY NATIVE AMERICAN SMILES HAPPILY 00:30:20 - TRUMAN WAVES TO CROWD 00:30:22 - CROWD WAVES TO TRUMAN, KIDS FOLLOW 00:30:28 - VIEW FROM BACK OF TRAIN TO FRONT OF TRAIN AS IT TRAVELS 00:30:29 - PRESS IN TRAIN CARS WRITING IN PADS 00:30:36 - TRUMAN WORKING WITH STAFF ON TRAIN 00:30:44 - TRUMAN READING PAPER 00:30:49 - TRAIN STOPS, TRUMAN SPEAKS 00:31:03 - DEWEY'S TRAIN 00:31:07 - DEWEY AT ONE OF HIS WHISTLE-STOP CAMPAIGNS. DEWEY SPEAKS 00:31:36 - TRUMAN SPEAKS, AUDIENCE MEMBER SHOUTS "GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRY!" 00:31:59 - TRUMAN IN NEW YORK. VIEW OF WATER & TRACKS FROM TRAIN WINDOW, TRAIN GOES BY STATION, MANY PEOPLE THERE IN RAIN 00:32:09 - CROWD SIGNS 'VOTE FOR TRUMAN,' TRUMAN ON TRAIN, HOLDS OUT HAND CHECKING FOR RAIN, PEOPLE UNDER UMBRELLAS WATCH, TRUMAN GETS OFF TRAIN 00:32:35 - 1948 ELECTION. PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE TO VOTE 00:32:43 - DEWEY GOES TO VOTE IN NEW YORK 00:32:53 - TRUMAN WALKS UP STAIRS, CASTS HIS VOTE IN INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI 00:33:14 - MAN PULLING LEVER IN VOTING MACHINE, CURTAINS (SEVERAL) CLOSING. CU HANDS PRESSING VOTER BUTTONS,INSERTING PAPERS, ETC. 00:33:21 - NEW YORK CITY TIME SQUARE. ELECTION RESULTS ON NEW YORK TIMES TICKER SIGN 00:33:32 - DEWEY'S HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK. TALLY BOARD. 00:33:34 - HERBERT BROWNELL SAYS DEWEY WILL CARRY NY 00:34:16 - HUBERT HUMPHREY WINS SENATE SEAT, LOOKS AT DOCUMENT 00:34:24 - PAUL DOUGLAS WINS SENATE SEAT, LOOKS AT DOCUMENT 00:34:30 - ESTES KEFAUVER WINS SENATE SEAT, LOOKS AT DOC. CU 00:34:35 - TOM DEWEY WITH FAMILY 00:34:47 - DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS 00:34:57 - CU ACCOUNTANT ADDING MACHINE 00:35:05 - CELEBRATING TRUMAN'S VICTORY 00:35:15 - DEWEY POSTERS BEING TAKEN DOWN, EMPTY REP. HQRS 00:35:22 - DEWEY MAKES HIS SPEECH ACKNOWLEDGING HIS LOSS 00:35:37 - TRUMAN SHAKING HANDS, WAVING 00:35:52 - TRUMAN'S VICTORY DINNER. TRUMAN SPEECH 00:37:07 - TRUMAN & VP BARKLEY WAVE TO CROWD FROM CAR IN VICTORY PARADE 00:37:33 - TRUMAN AT PODIUM SPEAKING HUMOROUS SPEECH. TALKS ABOUT ELECTION UPSET 00:38:31 - ON CRUISE BOAT, WALKING IN CASUAL CLOTHING AT BEACH 00:38:43 - JANUARY 22, 1949 INAUGURAL. CAPITOL BUILDING 00:38:46 - TRUMAN WAVING IN TOP HAT FROM CAR, TAKES OATH OF OFFICE, INAUGURAL ADDRESS 00:39:45 - MANY DIFFERENT FLAGS ON POLES OUTDOORS 00:39:46 - NATO FORMED. DELEGATES SIGNING 00:40:08 - MARGARET TRUMAN PRESS CONFERENCE 00:41:10 - MARGARET TRUMAN SINGING "GOD BLESS AMERICA" 00:41:19 - BOY SCOUTS 00:42:00 - TRUMAN WALKS AROUND TOWN 00:42:19 - SUMMER 1949: CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATE ACTIVITIES OF GENERAL HARRY VAUGHN, MILITARY ADVISOR. PART OF THE "KITCHEN CABINET" 00:43:15 - JOSEPH MCCARTHY COMMUNIST CHARGES 00:43:38 - JUNE 25, 1950: SOUTH KOREA ATTACKED BY NORTH KOREA COMMUNISTS. EXPLOSIONS, TROOPS IN CAMOUFLAGE 00:43:50 - TRUMAN SPEAKS INTO MICROPHONES ABOUT KOREA 00:43:58 - FIGHTING IN KOREA 00:44:18 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR TAKING FLAG 00:44:25 - UN ARMIES. TROOPS, TANKS 00:44:34 - MACARTHUR PINNING MEDAL ON SOLDIER 00:44:40 - OCTOBER 15, 1950: TRUMAN GETS OFF PLANE, SHAKES HAND WITH MACARTHUR 00:44:51 - PHOTOGRAPHERS 00:44:52 - TRUMAN PINNING MEDAL ON MACARTHUR 00:44:58 - TRUMAN GETS BACK ON PLANE 00:45:00 - DECEMBER 1950: CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS AT MANCHURIAN BORDER. 00:45:12 - MACARTHUR. FIGHTING BEGINS 00:45:12 - MACARTHUR WALKING, NEAR TANK 00:45:19 - ARMY TRUCK PULLED FROM THE MUD 00:45:22 - JEEP TRAVELING THRU MUD 00:45:23 - TROOPS 00:45:26 - MACARTHUR IN JEEP, WITH SCARF ON, GOING OVER PLANS 00:45:35 - SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON 00:45:44 - TRUMAN RELIEVES MACARTHUR IN ANNOUNCEMENT 00:46:12 - NEWSPAPERS TALL ATOP OF ONE ANOTHER "MACARTHUR FIRED!" 00:46:16 - WHITE HOUSE 00:46:22 - PRESS INTERVIEWING CIVILIANS ON THE DECISION 00:46:59 - TRUMAN CU SPEAKING 00:47:08 - TRUMAN AT BLACK TIE DINNER, MONTAGE OF TRUMAN 00:47:22 - TRUMAN ANNOUNCES HE WON'T RUN FOR THIRD TERM 1952 00:47:53 - TRUMAN GOING DOWN STEPS TO GREET EISENHOWER ON IKE'S INAUGURATION DAY 1953, PARADE 00:48:20 - INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI. MAIN STREET USA. 00:48:30 - WALKING THE TOWN'S STREET, SHAKING HANDS 00:48:37 - TRUMAN'S FATHER'S HOUSE 00:48:48 - TRUMAN SHAKES PEOPLE'S HANDS, BUYS NEWSPAPER
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1948
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-244