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Motion Picture MP2002-440

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

Administrative Information

Footage
36 feet
Running Time
1 minute 19 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Merle Miller interviews Harry S. Truman about the election of Woodrow Wilson. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

Audio file

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Reel 1

0:00   Merle Miller asks Harry S. Truman about the election of Woodrow Wilson.
0:14   Harry S. Truman states that he was cutting wheat "running a binder" when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for president in 1912. Although he and his father had supported Wilson's opponent, Bennet Champ Clark, they "supported Wilson 100% when he was nominated." Mr. Truman describes how he "wrapped the lines around the brake on the binder" and went about a quarter of a mile away to a little telegraph office to get election results. This was the primary election.