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Motion Picture MP81-13

Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman - Police Action, Part I, Episode No. 23

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
907 feet
Running Time
26 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Columbia - Ben Gradus in association with Screen Gems and David Noyes
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Episode 23, Police Action, Part 1. This episode covers the beginning of the Korean War and the background of the conflict. Unfortunately, the Decision series is copyright Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the Truman Library may not reproduce any episodes without their consent.

Date(s)
1964

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:30   Battle scenes - 38th Parallel.
1:20   Harry S. Truman speaks of Korean decision - "no time to falter".
1:37   Credits.
2:18   Truman speaks of Korea as a test for United Nations. Choices he faced: (1) Do nothing and let Communists take over (2) U.S. could fight (3) Ask for U.N. task force.
3:13   North Korea children learning from Russians.
3:35   Map of Korea - history; scenes of Korea; farming; rice paddies.
4:38   Japanese troops invading Korea, 1910.
5:10   Japanese - American battle scenes.
5:23   Atomic bomb explosion.
5:35   Free Korea after World War II.
6:05   Greeting American soldiers liberating South Korea and Russian soldiers liberating North Korea.
6:27   Allies agreed Russia could occupy North Korea to the 38th Parallel.
6:37   Truman speaks of 38th Parallel becoming a barrier between North and South Korea.
6:46   Korean scenes of occupation.
7:01   Dean Acheson speaks of Truman asking U.N. to seek way of unifying Korea.
7:18   Occupation troops.
7:54   January of 1947 - U.N. insisted on free election in both North and South Korea. Election was called in 1948. They elect the first President, Syngman Rhee. (General Douglas MacArthur is shown).
9:05   Communists infiltrated South Korea and demonstrated - they had never accepted the election.
9:33   Gap in film.
9:56   Americans have removed troops - only 500 Americans are left to help the small South Korean Army.
10:29   Truman speaks of removal of occupation troops.
10:55   General Omar Bradley speaks of demobilization. Scenes of returning soldiers.
11:44   Russian soldiers - Stalin.
11:59   Dean Acheson speaks of Korea as a trouble spot.
12:18   Berlin airlift scenes.
12:37   Malaysia guerilla war scenes.
12:53   Yugoslavia conflict.
13:06   Indochina guerilla conflict.
13:20   Korea - John Foster Dulles inspects.
13:55   Invasion from North Korea.
14:14   Truman speaks of the surprise of the attack.
14:29   Combat scenes - we had no legal right to protect Korea.
15:03   U.N. scenes.
15:30   Truman speaks of his decision.
15:48   Battle scenes.
16:10   John D. Hickerson, Dean Acheson; Truman tells where they were when told of attack on South Korea.
17:11   Independence, Missouri scenes; Truman’s mother.
17:28   U.N. scenes.
17:30   Gap in film.
18:00   Emergency meeting of U.N. Security Council on Korean aggression.
18:20   Acheson speaks on U.N. Charter.
18:37   John Hickerson, Ernest A. Gross, U.S. Representative on U.N. Peace Commission, relates diplomatic events; Trygve Lie shown.
21:18   U.N. Security Council meets: Acheson describes events; Korean children.
22:31   Truman returns from Independence.
23:00   Scenes of Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini, etc. - tyrants.
23:30   Acheson speaks of need for action.
23:45   U.N. scenes. Russian delegation walks out. Gross and Acheson speak.
24:52   Combat scenes.
25:47   Truman speaks of grave threat to survival of U.N.