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Motion Picture MP2002-21

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series “Decision:  The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman,”)

Administrative Information

Footage
16 feet
Running Time
22 seconds
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman speaking of nobody knowing what the historians will say about you after you're gone. He says that you can't tell if a man has been right or wrong in his decisions until he's been dead about 50 years. As much as he would like to, he doesn't think he'll live that long. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

Audio file

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Reel 1

0:00   Harry S. Truman’s voice: “Nobody can tell what the historians will say about you after you’re gone; and you can’t tell if a man has been right or wrong in his decisions until he’s been dead about 50 years; and I don’t think I’ll live that long much as I’d like to.”