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Motion Picture MP2002-78

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

Administrative Information

Footage
135 feet
Running Time
4 minutes 17 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman speaks about civil rights. Sound with picture.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

Reel 1

0:00   Unidentified voice: “1508” Harry S. Truman speaks candidly about civil rights. A foreigner to the United States is puzzled to find bigotry in regard to the treatment of Negroes. Mr. Truman tries to explain, as he would to a foreigner, how this came about. Mr. Truman discusses the Civil War, where 3-1/2 million Negroes were freed. The freed Negroes felt they had the same rights as white people. The Southerners, used to slave ways, couldn’t see it. Southerners are not bigots; they know the situation will develop with equality among the races. Northerners are always sticking their noses in where they are not wanted. The Negroes who went north usually wish they were back in the south because they are not treated any better in the north.
2:52   Mr. Truman refers to civil rights laws. He mentions New York, Chicago, and Boston.
3:45   The situation will develop where people get used to integration; there will be no trouble when they get used to it. (Mr. Truman slips into colloquial language a few times – says a racial epithet). This was probably used in preparation for MP81-4, “Man from Missouri.”