Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum


Motion Picture MP76-89.

Excursion.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Date: January 10, 1954.
Formats: 16mm.
Sound: Yes.
Color: No.
Running Time: 29 min. 15 sec.
Footage: 1,053 feet.
Produced by: NBC.
Copyright Restrictions: NBC.

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SHOT LIST

Burgess Meredith, host

0:00 At Waldorf Astoria in New York City, a group of school newspaper editors ask Harry S. Truman questions.
3:00 Film reenactment of Abraham Lincoln’s schoolboy days, illustrating his character – Lincoln Growing Up
14:00 The students ask Truman questions: valuable subjects studied in school – history; favorite character in history-Jefferson; most maligned-Andrew Johnson; Winston Churchill should be “man of the year”; education is valuable; military training; a woman could become President someday; wants to live in Independence, not NYC; “opportunity knocks every day”; public relations a key in politics.
27:45 Closing and credits.

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The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of thirteen Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

500 W. US Hwy. 24. Independence MO 64050
truman.library@nara.gov
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Phone: 816-268-8200 or 1-800-833-1225;
Fax: 816-268-8295.

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