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Motion Picture MP74-4

CBS News Special Report (Truman Funeral Coverage)

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Section: Reel 1
Footage: 1050 feet
Duration: 31 minutes
Section: Reel 2
Footage: 1050 feet
Duration: 31 minutes
Section: Reel 3
Footage: 907 feet
Duration: 26 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Color
Produced by
CBS
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

CBS news special coverage of the funeral of President Truman in Independence, Missouri. This film covers the funeral service in the Truman Library auditorium, and the service in the courtyard of the Truman Library.

Date(s)
December 28, 1972

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:30   Walter Cronkite in New York.
0:56   Truman Library auditorium.
1:15   Charles Kuralt at Truman Library begins narration.
1:45   Hubert Humphrey and his wife.
2:25   Casket carried on stage.
2:48   Front row; pallbearers exit.
4:20   Truman’s nephews.
5:30   Thomas Eagleton; pause while family is seated off stage and off screen.
7:30   Hugh McLaughlin, Masonic Grand Master of Missouri, conducts Masonic service. Camera cuts away to mourners on the front row: Truman nephews, Gov. Warren Hearnes, Sen. Thomas Eagleton.
8:35   Hubert Humphrey and mourners.
14:00   McLaughlin concludes.
14:10   The Rev. John H. Lembecke begins Episcopal service.
23:30   View of auditorium with slow pan towards front.
24:45   Mourners stand to read the Apostle’s Creed. Hubert Humphrey and wife in foreground.
25:50   Baptist minister, Rev. Harold M. Hunt, offers prayer.
29:04   Truman nephews.
31:00   Rev. Lembecke concludes with prayer.
31:31   Film ends.
  • Reel 2
0:03   Dignitaries at the ceremony.
1:40   Close-up of Hubert H. Humphrey.
3:30   Military pall-bearers approach casket.
7:08   Pan shot of the garden at the Library and the sky-line of Independence.
7:36   H. Roe Bartle (former Kansas City Mayor) as he walks out to the garden.
10:48   Wallace Smith, President of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints.
10:53   J.R. Fuchs – Library Staff.
11:03   John Curry – Library Staff.
13:16   Charles Wheeler.
13:40   Warren Ohrvall – Library Staff.
14:08   Clark Clifford and Averell Harriman.
20:49   Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri artist.
21:46   J.C. Hall, founder and President of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
24:50   Casket in procession to garden.
26:50   Color Guard.
27:27   Bell begins to toll.
30:48   Casket enters the garden.
31:00   End of reel.
  • Reel 3
0:00   Pallbearers enter courtyard with casket; Fifth Army band plays Ruffles and Flourishes, National Anthem.
2:35   Band plays “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
3:20   Pallbearers proceed from side door to grave site.
3:50   Bess Truman enters courtyard.
5:00   Casket placed at grave site.
5:45   Bess Truman and family seated.
6:10   Rev. John H. Lembecke reads service.
7:45   Pallbearers hold flag over casket during prayer.
9:15   Mourners.
9:50   Clifton Daniel and youngest son.
10:55   Pallbearers; Mrs. George (May) Wallace in background.
11:50   Prayers end.
12:20   Final 21-gun salute begins.
12:35   Battery D; cuts to the Truman family, troops.
13:59   End of salute.
14:13   Benediction.
14:54   Benediction ends.
15:28   Three volleys of rifle fire.
15:44   Taps.
16:00   Close-up of Bess Truman and Margaret; cut to flag in front of Bess and Margaret; cut to flag in front of Truman Library.
16:48   Taps ends.
17:05   Flag is folded.
19:35   Red carnations placed on casket.
20:05   Gen. Cassidy presents flag to Mrs. Bess Truman and escorts her from courtyard.
23:55   Joint Chiefs representatives leave courtyard.
24:45   Crowd begins to depart.