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Motion Picture MP2002-249

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

Administrative Information

Footage
72 feet
Running Time
2 minutes 31 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Interviewer (possibly David Susskind) discussing the differences between the Independence Examiner and the Kansas City Star coverage of foreign news. Harry S. Truman states that he believes the Independence Examiner has better foreign news coverage. 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: "61F4588, Talent Assocites, Truman Story, Take 2 from roll 35. This is an overlength roll and we’ll have to make pickups and continue on another one. Wildcat 1,047." (Talent Associates is David Susskind’s company, the first producer of the "Decision" series).
    Interviewer, possibly David Susskind: "We were talking about newspapers and you were saying that the Independence Examiner really has a better foreign news coverage than the Kansas City Star."
1:02   Harry S. Truman replies: "That’s true." He explains that the Examiner is a small newspaper, but he believes it reports from International News Service more accurately than the Kansas City Star, which follows Associated Press, which has some prejudices.
    Mr. Truman recommends reading pages 3, 4, and 5 of newspapers to find out what is really going on. When one reads these pages of the Star, they find the real story is what the Examiner has already printed on the front page.