Former President Harry S. Truman's speech for the Combined Jewish Appeal, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, FL. The event was the State of Israel Bonds' celebration of the Eddie Cantor's 65th Birthday.
CBS recording of activities aboard the Harry S. Truman and Thomas Dewey campaign trains, edited together and aired on the radio October 1, 1948. From the Dewey Victory Special, Allen Dulles explains his role as a Dewey advisor on foreign affairs. Other Dewey campaign advisors and assistants also introduce themselves and their roles, including Dewey's secretary. Journalists representing the New Yorker magazine, the Baltimore Afro-American, and CBS also introduce themselves.
Interview with artist Thomas Hart Benton by Harry S. Truman Library museum curator Milton F. Perry about the creation of the Benton Mural, "Independence and the Opening of the West," in the lobby of the Truman Library. Benton goes through the history of the area, and describes the visual elements that make up the mural.
President Harry S. Truman's address at a dinner of the Civil Defense Conference. The President spoke at 10:30 p.m. at the Statler Hotel in Washington, DC. He is first introduced by Millard Caldwell, Civil Defense Administrator and former Governor of Florida. The address was carried on a nationwide broadcast. In two parts. From: Tom Evans.
Inaugural ceremonies of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley, U.S. Capitol building, Washington, DC. In three parts. Part 1: Opening prayer by Dr. Edward Pruden; Star-Spangled Banner by Phil Regan; Justice Stanley Reed administers the oath of office to Vice President Barkley; prayer by Rabbi Samuel Thurman. Part 2: Chief Justice Fred Vinson administers the oath of office to President Harry Truman; part 1 of Truman's Inaugural Address, ending in point four.
ABC's radio coverage of President Harry S. Truman's and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill's appearance at Fulton, MO, where they both received honorary degrees from Westminster College, under the auspices of the Green Foundation lecture series. President Truman introduces Mr. Churchill, who gave a speech entitled "The Sinews of Peace," where he introduced the concept of an Iron Curtain descending across Europe. The recording is in five parts and covers much of the ceremony.
President Harry S. Truman's address at a Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, in which President Truman announced he would not seek reelection to the presidency. The President spoke at 10:30 p.m. at the National Guard Armory in Washington, DC. His opening words referred to Wash. B. Williams who served as chairman of the dinner, Vice President Alben W. Barkley, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Frank E. McKinney, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
President Harry S. Truman's State of the Union Message delivered before a Joint Session of the Congress, U.S. Capitol, as broadcast by ABC radio. The President spoke at 12:30 p.m. The address was broadcast nationally. It is followed by a recording of the Star Spangled Banner. In three parts.
President Harry S. Truman's address at the opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty, San Francisco, CA. The President spoke at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Opera House. His remarks are followed by the National Anthem and other music. President Truman's opening words referred to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Governor Earl Warren of California, and Mayor E. E. Robinson of San Francisco. The address was broadcast and televised. The Multilateral Treaty of Peace with Japan was signed at San Francisco on September 8, 1951. In two parts.
An interview with former President Harry S. Truman by Dr. Forest C. Pogue at the Truman Library, on General George C. Marshall.