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Motion Picture MP2002-265

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

Administrative Information

Footage
215 feet
Running Time
6 minutes 15 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Mr. Truman discusses his early career in Jackson County politics and various friends and neighbors speak about the former President. A member of Battery D discusses the love and respect the men had for Mr. Truman. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   This recording consists of segments of Harry S. Truman speaking about his early career, and segments of various friends and neighbors of Mr. Truman speaking about the former President. None of the speakers are identified by name.
    Mr. Truman begins by stating his definition of a leader as someone who could make the people that serve under him "do what they don’t want to do and like it."
0:28   Unidentified speaker from Battery D says that every member of the Battery had love and respect for Mr. Truman and the haberdashery of Truman and Jacobson became their headquarters
0:44   Mr. Truman discusses his need for a job and his entry into county politics. He was either "kin or friends to almost everybody in Jackson County."
1:06   Rufus Burrus states that Frank Wallace predicted his brother-in-law, Harry Truman, would be the next judge of Eastern Jackson County.
    Mr. Truman describes giving his first political speech in Lee’s Summit. He was "so scared . . . I couldn’t say a word." A friend states that he was painful to listen to, but developed as a speaker.
2:30   Mr. Truman describes how he won election for Eastern Judge by 500 votes, defeating four other candidates.
3:12   Mr. Truman states his defeat in 1924 was a good thing because he learned what it felt like to be defeated. A man, evidently Henry Rummel, describes what it was like beating Mr. Truman in the race, and how he felt bad about it.