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Motion Picture MP2002-59

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

Administrative Information

Footage
290 feet
Running Time
7 minutes 8 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Undetermined
Description

Mrs. Eddie Jacobson talks about the relationship between Harry S. Truman and Eddie Jacobson. 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   Unidentified voice: “take 1, 51” Ben Gradus interviews Mrs. Eddie Jacobson in this segment. They begin by discussing whether Mrs. Jacobson looks like Bess Truman.
1:05   Mrs. Jacobson talks about the friendship between Eddie and Harry. They had a straight-forward handshake friendship that grew. Harry said to Eddie, “If we ever come back from Europe alive . . . let us go into business together.”
2:17   When Mr. Roosevelt died, and Mr. Truman became President, how did Eddie feel, was their friendship different? If they were in a crowd, or group, Eddie called him President Truman, or Your Honor. When alone, it was Eddie and Harry.
3:50   There are many ethnic and religious groups in Kansas City – was their friendship extraordinary because it was between a Jew and a Gentile? They never discussed religion, and they felt like brothers.
4:53   What were President Truman’s special qualities? Upright and straightforward; a man of good will who never let anything come in the way of their friendship
5:52   Did you and Mr. Jacobson become worried during the 1948 campaign about President Truman winning the election? President Truman was more optimistic than the Jacobsons. Eddie became more optimistic riding on the campaign train with Mr. Truman as they returned to Kansas City. This was probably used in preparation of MP80-8, “Man on the Lid.”