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United States President Harry S. Truman announces Japan's unconditional surrender to end World War II.
United States President Harry S. Truman announces Japan's unconditional surrender to end World War II.
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This Week In History 4/12 - 4/18
This Week In History 4/12 - 4/18 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Dinner honors House Speaker, Sam Rayburn
Testimonial dinner for House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas is attended by many party notables, including Ex-President Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Governor W. Averell Harriman of NY, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mrs Woodrow Wilson (Edith...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Film portrait of former Canadian Prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King compiled at his death in Canada
Title card: "W. L. Mackenzie King - Good neighbor, world statesman, champion of democracy" / CU King / King greeting British King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth as they get off ship / King sitting at table between George VI and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Harry Truman announces at Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner that he will not run for re-election
Title Card: "Politics - Truman Drops An 'Atomic Bomb'" / MS Pres. Harry Truman's plane, USAF Independence, arrives / Truman down steps / VS Truman kisses wife Bess; they walk off / EXT White House / people looking thru railing / newsreel...
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On the eve of his departure from the White House, Pres Harry Truman calls for non-partisan support of the incoming administration
Title: "Truman's Farewell Message" superimposed over White House / MS White House with tree in foreground / Back view from behind newsreel cameraman of President Harry S. Truman seated behind desk / CU line of five newsreel cameramen...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin is dead
Title Card: "Bulletin - Joseph Stalin Is Dead" // Moscow: LS Kremlin Wall in snow / MS building / VS people walking in street, reading newspapers, woman with baby / CU Joseph Stalin in military uniform, smiling slightly / MS Vyacheslav...
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Former President Harry Truman leaves San Francisco with wife Bess and their daughter Margaret for vacation in Hawaii
Title "People you're reading about" superimposed over newspapers coming off press / title "Harry S. Truman sails for Hawaii vacation " superimposed over ocean liner "President Cleveland" at dock in harbor / Bess Truman, daughter...
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Eventful 1945 sees the passing of President Roosevelt and unconditional surrender from the Germans
(Washington, DC 1/20/1945) LS White House with a few MPs guarding on snowy lawn / MS side view Pres. Franklin Roosevelt swears in on White House portico / rear WS large crowd / VS Roosevelt waves, son Elliot behind him smiling / MS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Burial of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and funeral for Chief Justice Fred Vinson in Washington, DC
Title card: "Vinson, Wainwright - A nation's final tribute / close shot of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, commander of US troops on Corregidor in World War II / [9/8/1953] soldiers standing in formation next to Wainwright's casket on caisson...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Women participate in war efforts during World Wars I and II in the US and the UK
[GHOC Episode V-02] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Women in War, Too" / [Daly City, CA] VS women at work during World War I: wheeling debris on rail cart, shoveling, throwing things into rail car / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Missouri and Mississippi River flooding
Title card: "A Cameraman's Story - 'I Saw it Happen' - A City's Fight for Life" / United States map / CU section of map, with pointer stick moving along the Missouri River in the Iowa area / flooded Council Bluffs with buildings under...
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Canada mourns the death of longtime Prime Minister Mackenzie King
[GHOC Episode H-01] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Canada Mourns Prime Minister" / [1948, Williamsburg, VA] VS Canadian PM Mackenzie King receives honorary degree at the College of William and Mary / VS...
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US President Harry Truman gives speech at the United Nations in NY City on the UN's 5th Anniversary
Title: 'Free World Hails UN 5th Year' superimposed over UN flag waving on flagpole / title card: 'Through the United Nations, which has overcome the challenge of Korea, the world has its only chance to overcome the challenge of The Bomb'...
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President Harry S. Truman gives his famous speech about the imminent attack on Japan.
President Harry S. Truman gives his famous speech about the imminent attack on Japan.
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United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Truman Doctrine in 1947.
United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Truman Doctrine in 1947.
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A look at some of the midterm election winners in the 1954 US elections
Title: "South Carolina" superimposed over high angle shot Democratic convention in SC, with banner "States Rights Democrats" hanging above stage / CU victorious Senate candidate Strom Thurmond speaking at microphones / side angle MS...
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New President Dwight D. Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon
L-R out-going First Lady Bess Truman; Patricia Nixon, incoming First Lady Mamie Eisenhower / as Vice Pres. Richard Nixon steps forward for his oath, the huge crowd stands / With his hand upright, Nixon takes the oath administered by...
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4th Annual Portland Rose Festival in Portland, OR
Title "4th Annual Portland Rose Festival" superimposed over close up of rose / three shots of Queen of Festival Nancy Wyly in garden with officials looking at roses / wide overhead shot of parade coming down street, crowd watching / shot...
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Flooding in Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri
Card: "Paramount News issue no 38" / title card: "The outstanding stories of 1951" / title "Film documents for posterity - Paramount News brings into focus again the events which left their marks upon the pages of history . . ."...
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Verbal battle is carried out between former Pres. Truman and Attorney General Brownell over Harry Dexter White espionage case
Title Card: "Truman-Brownell - The Big Debate" "Highlights of the verbal battle growing out of the Harry Dexter White case..." / WS newsstand, people walk past / CU newspapers with headlines about Herbert Brownell / CU rear shot man...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Harry Truman issues order for government control of steel industry
Title card: "A Timely Report - Steel Seizure Order Stirs National Debate" / quiet steel mills across the United States / men walking / on strike steel workers picket / men at cars listening to President Harry Truman's announcement of the...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Truman returns from Key West vacation to tackle an IRS scandal and truce talks with North Korea
Title card: "Truman Ends Vacation - Tackles Truce, Tax Problems" / Key West, FL: presidential motorcade approaches / "The Independence" airplane parked on tarmac / VS journalists make notes as Pres. Harry Truman, wearing a hat, speaks to...
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Former President Harry Truman, his wife Bess, and daughter Margaret arrive in Honolulu, Hawaii, for vacation
Title "Harry Truman - Big Aloha in Hawaii" superimposed over ocean liner SS President Cleveland carrying Truman and family pulling into dock in Honolulu / shot from dock of Truman, Bess, and Margaret at rail of ship, Truman and Bess...