Guide to Videotapes Collection in the Harry S. Truman Library

TRUMAN SEMINAR Political Science 191-T, University of California-Berkeley, July 17, 1986. This seminar was held in observance of the Truman Centennial. Received from Prof. Patrick L. Hatcher, Dept. Of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley. Tom Blaisdell, who was involved in the seminar, requested Prof. Hatcher send us these tapes. Two 3/4-inch videotapes.

OUR WORLD: SECRETS AND SURPRISES, FALL OF 1948 ABC/WJLA, January 1, 1987. Received January 8, 1987 from Jim Wright at the National Archives. 3/4-inch videotape.

JACK BENNY SHOW October 18, 1959. Show was filmed at the Truman Library with President Truman as the guest star. See also MP75-2 for 16mm copy. This was a gift from Dave Goldin, Radio Yesteryear. VHS videotape. SHRINE TO THE CHIEF" (about presidential libraries) MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. Roger Mudd report, April 30, 1987. 3/4-inch videotape.

SHRINE TO THE CHIEF (about presidential libraries) MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. Roger Mudd report, April 30, 1987. 3/4-inch videotape.

THE GENERAL Ben Gazzara narrates this story on the life of Gen. George Marshall, 6/5/87. PBS. From the National Archives, Office of Presidential Libraries. 3/4-inch videotape.

KANSAS CITY ILLUSTRATED KCPT, Channel 19 (PBS in Kansas City), December 8, 1987. Segment of interview with David McCullough (a researcher at the Truman Library, who spoke about Truman). This was a gift from Clay Bauske. VHS videotape.

“TRUMAN AT POTSDAM" Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1977. We have two 3/4-inch videotapes of this program, Part I and Part II.

CBS - THIS MORNING April 4, 1988. Charles Osgood segment of Harry Truman. The show was broadcast from Kansas City because of the NCAA championship in basketball which was held in Kansas City. VHS videotape.

TRUMAN: YEARS OF DECISION Learning Corp. Of America (From the series, Leaders of the 20th Century). 3/4-inch videotape.

Dedication of the Kansas City telephone directory (featuring a photograph of a segment of the Benton Mural), 5/17/88. This tape contains excerpts from television news shows, Channel 4 (WRAF), Channel 5 (KCTV), and Channel 9 (KMBZ). Received from James C. Denney, Southwestern Bell. 3/4-inch videotape.

“THE GREAT UPSET OF `48" October 26, 1988. WETA, Washington, D.C. Videotape was received from WETA. 3/4-inch videotape (2 copies, we also received one videotape of this from the Office of Presidential libraries). Walter Cronkite reports on the election of 1948.

Interview by Wendell Anschutz with Dr. Benedict Zobrist, Director of the Truman Library, on the 6:00 p.m. news, Channel 5, KCTV, Kansas City. The interview was conducted in the1948 campaign room exhibit at the Truman Library and was broadcast in conjunction with coverage of George Bush's presidential inauguration. This was broadcast on Jan. 19, 1989. This was taped from television. The interview is at the beginning of the news broadcast. VHS videotape.

Ceremony inducting Harry Truman into the National Housing Hall of Fame, May 8, 1988. We received two videotapes, one 3/4-inch and one '/Z-inch VHS from the National Association of Home Builders, Housing Hall of Fame. They are copies of the same ceremony.

SECRET CITY: THE OAK RIDGE STORY Videotape copy of a 12-projector multi-image show from the American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This was sent to us because a tape recording of Truman's Aug. 6, 1945 announcement of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, as well as a few images, were purchased from us. VHS videotape.

TRUMAN THE MAN Shawnee Mission Public Schools, 1977. [Third grade instructional television] 3/4-inch videotape.

HARRY S. TRUMAN GOOD NEIGHBOR AWARD FOUNDATION 37TH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON: HOWARD BAKER, RECIPIENT, MAY 8, 1989 Allis Plaza Hotel, Kansas City, MO. Dr. Zobrist received this tape from the Foundation. ½-inch VHS videotape.

THE VERY HUMAN MR. TRUMAN From Vignettes of St. Joseph History, by the School District of St. Joseph, Missouri, Gene Bradley. This tape focuses on an interview with Harold Slater, a St. Joseph journalist who knew Truman. The film includes footage shot at the Truman Library, including several still photographs. VHS videotape.

“GOOD MORNING AMERICA" Segment on the Berlin Airlift. Date unknown, probably May 1989, which would be anniversary of the end of the airlift. VHS videotape.

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES KURALT: AMERICAN MEMORIES Segment on the National Archives, including short interview with Don Wilson. VHS videotape.

WAR AND PEACE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: PROGRAM 1: DAWN WGBH, Boston and Central Independent Television, England, producers. Distributed byIntellimation. January 1989. VHS videotape.

WAR AND PEACE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: PROGRAM 2: THE WEAPON CHOICE WGBH, Boston and Central Independent Television, England, producers. Distributed by Intellimation. January 1989. VHS videotape.

Tour of the Truman Library, conducted by Supervisory Archivist, Ray Geselbracht and featuring several Truman Library staff members (Phil Lagerquist, Liz Safly, Erwin Mueller, Carol Briley, Pauline Testerman, Mark Beveridge). This was an informal tour behind the scenes at the Truman Library, prepared with a home video camera and filmed by Mark Beveridge, to be sent to a Veterans Hospital that had requested such material. Spring 1990. VHS videotape.

SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT FIRST WORLD WAR Interviews with McKinley Wooden, who was in Battery D with Truman, and Col. James Sellars, by Stuart Stefany of the Kansas City Art Institute. February 1990. VHS videotape.

VT90-68-1 and 68-2 "PLAIN SPEAKING" Ed Flanders as Harry Truman, David Susskind Productions. 3/4-inch videotape. Received copy from researcher William Hall; National Archives made copy for us. Ca. 1976. Second copy in VHS. Curtis Brown Ltd., 20 Astor Place, Copyright, 212-473-5400. DVD in-house reproduction added 8/24/12.

MIKE WESTWOOD'S FUNERAL News clip from KMBZ, TV-9, 1/19/79. [Bess Truman appears briefly in this news clip, when she attended the funeral of Mike Westwood] 3/4-inch videotape.