Motion Picture MP72-9
Administrative Information
Newsreel coverage of Harry Truman from 1945 and 1946. This film includes Truman meeting with Clement Attlee, and Winston Churchill's visit to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946. Excerpts of two speeches are also featured.
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Shot List
- Reel 1
| 0:00 | “Truman – Attlee – King” Atomic Bomb talks, November, 1945. | |
| 1:00 | USN Yacht Sequoia. | |
| 2:00 | Endorse loan to England – Snyder and Max Gardner – Harry Truman speaks. | |
| 3:00 | Churchill and Truman at Westminster – Churchill speaks (no Iron Curtain mention), March 5, 1946. | |
| 6:00 | “Religion Only Hope for World, Says Truman”, News of the Day, Meeting of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America — (Truman speaks – excerpts), March 6, 1946. | |
| 8:00 | “Truman Bids Us Be Strong in Army Day Speech” – Chicago, Truman and Eisenhower in parade; scenes of the parade (no speeches) April 6, 1946. |