- Title: VM-279
- Summary: TRUMAN & THE USES OF POWER: PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN & POST-WAR DOMESTIC ISSUES: UNEMPLOYMENT & LABOR VIOLENCE WHICH LED TO MAJOR STRIKES & CAMPAIGN AGAINST TAFT-HARTLEY ACT; COLD-WAR FEAR OF COMMUNISM & HUAC; CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE & INTEGRATION-DESEGREGATION OF THE ARMED SERVICES.
- Description:01:33:58 - AERIAL HUGE CROWDS CHEER TRUMAN AT 1948 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION 01:34:09 - TRUMAN ADDRESSES CONVENTION AS 1948 UNDERDOG 01:34:21 - THOMAS E. DEWEY AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION 01:34:32 - MONTAGE PEOPLE WITH UMBRELLAS AT TRAIN STATION AWAIT TRUMAN 01:34:33 - TRUMAN TALKS TO PEOPLE AT WHISTLESTOP CAMPAIGN TOUR 01:34:42 - PEOPLE CAST BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY 01:34:55 - VICTORIOUS TRUMAN & BARKLEY MOTORCADE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 01:35:11 - MONTAGE CHEERING CROWDS LINE STREETS, STAND ON WALLS 01:35:14 - CHEERING GIS ON TROOPSHIPS HOME FROM KOREA 01:35:28 - IDLE WORKERS STAND & SIT AROUND CLOSED FACTORY PLANTS 01:35:43 - MONTAGE PICKETS & STRIKERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 01:35:54 - MONTAGE LABOR VIOLENCE 01:35:58 - AERIAL MEN WITH STICKS RUN BY & BREAK FACTORY WINDOWS 01:36:05 - POLICE ON HORSES & FOOT BATTLE STRIKERS 01:36:17 - COAL MINERS & FAMILIES STAND BY AS BODIES ARE REMOVED FROM MINE 01:36:43 - JOHN L. LEWIS ENTERS MEETING BUILDING 01:36:47 - COAL MINERS ROLL OUT OF MINE IN ROLLER COASTER-TYPE CAR 01:37:05 - IDLE COAL CARS AS LEWIS CALLS LABOR STRIKE 01:37:12 - RAILROAD ENGINEERS WALK OFF TRAINS 01:37:22 - AERIAL IDLE TRAINS IN YARD 01:37:26 - IDLE COAL HOPPERS FULL WITH COAL 01:37:50 - TRUMAN ASKS CONGRESS TO PUT WORKERS BACK TO WORK. BREAK STRIKE 01:38:03 - TRUMAN GETS WILD APPLAUSE FROM CONGRESS 01:38:14 - TRUMAN RECEIVES MESSAGE AS HE SPEAKS THAT RAILROAD STRIKE HAS ENDED 01:38:31 - MINERS WALK OFF JOB AS JOHN L. LEWIS DEFIES PRESIDENT 01:39:10 - MONTAGE JOHN L. LEWIS 01:39:35 - SENATOR TAFT. TAFT-HARTLEY ACT PASSED BY CONGRESS, JUNE 1947 01:40:49 - TAFT & CONGRESSMEN OVERRIDE VETO 01:40:52 - TRUMAN TAKES BRISK WALK PAST THE WHITE HOUSE 01:40:55 - CU TRUMAN & AGENT WALKING ALONG PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 01:41:28 - MONTAGE DEFENDENTS ARGUE WITH SENATORS AS CONGRESS INVESTIGATES COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT 01:41:57 - ROBERT TAYLOR TESTIFIES: "IF I HAD MY WAY, I'LL SEND THEM ALL BACK TO RUSSIA". 01:42:03 - ADOLPH MENJOU TESTIFIES AT SENATE COMMITTEE ON UN- AMERICAN ACTIVITIES 01:42:12 - HOLLYWOOD STARS LAUREN BACALL, HUMPHREY BOGART, DANNY KAYE ETC. GO TO HEARINGS 01:42:54 - CU WHITAKER CHAMBERS ACCUSES ALGER HISS OF SPYING 01:43:04 - CU RICHARD NIXON, CONGRESSMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, ASKS QUESTIONS AT HEARING 01:43:22 - MONTAGE ALGER HISS IS CONVICTED OF PERJURY 01:43:32 - ROSENBERGS PUT IN PADDY WAGON 01:43:40 - MONTAGE SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY PUT IN CHARGE OF HEARINGS. MCCARTHY HEARINGS. HUAC, HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE. 01:44:17 - TRUMAN MAKES SPEECH: "HE WILL NOT MAKE A GESTAPO OUT OF FBI" 01:45:24 - CU JOE MCCARTHY HEARINGS CONTINUED DESPITE TRUMAN'S OBJECTIONS 01:45:45 - POLICE PROD BLACK MAN ONTO PADDY WAGON 01:45:46 - BLACK MEN FILE OUT OF PADDY WAGON IN HANDCUFFS 01:45:54 - CU BLOODY, SHIRTED BLACK MAN SITS IN STREET 01:45:57 - TRUMAN WALKS STREET & BUYS PAPER FROM BLACK MAN 01:46:55 - BLACK PEOPLE PLOW FIELDS 01:47:03 - BLACK FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN SIT ON PORCH OF WOODEN HOUSE 01:47:12 - GOVERNOR STROM THURMOND MAKES VIOLENT SPEECH AGAINST TRUMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE 01:48:03 - MONTAGE BLACK GIS WORK & DRILL 01:48:19 - CU BLACK SOLDIER CLEANS CLOTHES IN VAT OF BOILING WATER 01:48:21 - CU GENERAL EISENHOWER CONDONES SEGREGATION IN ARMED FORCES 01:48:33 - MONTAGE BLACK GIS WORK AS BAKERS & COOKS 01:49:21 - TRUMAN REVIEWS ARMED FORCES PARADE 01:50:08 - ECU BLACK GIS 01:50:15 - MONTAGE TRUMAN TALKING TO PEOPLE IN STREET, MAKING SPEECHES, IN MOTORCADES }B
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-279