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Why Do Presidents Pardon Turkeys?
It’s a centuries-old tradition with origins that are a little... feathery. Some believe it started with Lincoln – not the president, but his son.
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Convention
Democratic Convention
Philadelphia - Assembling to pick a slate for the Fall elections, over 1,200 delegates engage in typical preconvention hoopla. The keynote speech by Senator Barkley sets the stage for the serious business of...
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Play, Truman, Pope, Quadruplets
"Prehistoric" Play
At Grants Pass, Oregon, the "Cave Men" stage a strictly-for-laughs version of a prehistoric ball game in which the pigskin is a real pig.
Trumans Home For Christmas
Independence - the President, greeted by Mrs Truman...
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The Truman Story
SHOWSTruman's birthplace in Lamar, Mo., still pictures of him in his WWI uniform, and WWI battle scenes. Truman campaignsreviews a military paradeposes with Pres. Roosevelt at the 1944 Demo. conventionaddresses Congressposes aboard the...
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new york: new york holds memorial service for Truman.
nxc 46820 "Lindsay - Truman" shows: ls city hall, crowds: cu Lindsay, sof: mcu podium, pan to crowd, "taps" sounded, bg sof:
(shot 12/28/72...
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washington sen lloyd bentson on justice dept.
uncut: "sen lloyd bentson" shows: mcu bentson talking at press conf: saying he proposes that the attorney general should be taken out of politics: talking...
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new york: Truman reaction
cuts "Truman reaction" shows: interview with people on the street:
(shot 12/26/72 100ft)
truman, harry - dead
vox pops
xx / 100 ft / 16 pos / color / cuts /
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Home beckons for America's floating military fortress in Med
CLEAN : Home beckons for America's floating military fortress in Med
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Former President Hoover Gives World Famine Report
1946 Newsreel / Former President Hoover Gives World Famine Report / President Truman and Secretary of Agriculture Anderson sit with Ex-President Hoover / Hoover speaks at a press conference about his findings from his Global trip /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1948 Presidential and Senate race
Title 'Truman Wins!' superimposed over headshot smiling President Harry S. Truman / title card: 'Warner Pathe News records the most stunning political upset in U.S. history as the Democrats win the Senate, House, and White House.' / New...
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Universal Newsreel
Story 9, WHISTLE-STOPS - TRUMAN IN FIGHT TO AID CAMPAIGN AGAINST IKE,
200 UN 25-402, 10 Oct 1950 b/w, sound
06:21:54: General Dwight D Eisenhower with wife Mamie and others in open-topped car on campaign...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Harry Truman's 1949 inaugural address in Washington, DC
Harry Truman standing at podium on East Portico of US Capitol delivering inaugural address, various officials seated behind him / shot of crowd in Capitol Plaza listening to address / Truman delivering address / shot from behind Truman...