Motion Picture MP2016-21
Administrative Information
Footage was shot by Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan when he accompanied President Harry S. Truman on a trip to Mexico City, March 3 - 6, 1947. See also MP76-38 and MP2006-27 for the same trip but different footage.
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Shot List
Intertitles tell the progression of the trip as follows:
March 3rd. After a nine hour flight from Kansas City, we arrive at the Central Airport, Mexico City.
March 3rd – Central Airport, Mexico City: President Truman thanks President Miguel Aleman and members of the Reception Committee for his cordial welcome to Mexico.
Enroute from the airport to the American Embassy. [soldiers line the roadway]
March 4th – Mexico City: The President attends a Festival at the National Stadium. [music and dancing displays]
March 5th – On a flight enroute to and over Paricutin (Mexico’s famous volcano). The plane you see bears the members of the American press party.
March 5th – After our return from Paricutin we visit the Pyramids and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (“The Citadel”) at the Archaeological City of Teotihuacan.
March 6th – We departed Mexico City at 5 a.m.; stopped off at Waco, Texas, enroute; and arrived Washington at 8 p.m. [no footage is shown to depict this]