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Motion Picture MP2010-1

Home Movie of Scenes from President Harry S. Truman’s Funeral

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
150 feet
Running Time
8 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
Super 8mm
Sound
silent
Color
Color
Produced by
Home movie by Larry Blair, Sr.; Donated by Larry Blair, Jr
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Home movie footage relating to the motorcade delivering the casket of Mr. Truman to the Harry S. Truman Library, the visits to the Truman home of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Richard M. Nixon; interspersed with newspaper headlines and newspaper photographs.

Date(s)
December 27, 1972
Available Format(s)
Motion Picture
Video Tape
DVD

SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.

SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.

This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.

To request a copy of this item, please contact truman.reference@nara.gov​​​​​​​

Please note that this video belongs to a different video collection than the items available to be borrowed by teachers, from our Education Department.

Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
     
0:00   Close-up of newspaper headlines announcing the death of President Harry S. Truman.
0:17   Courthouse Square and city streets of Independence, Missouri, with cars going by.
0:40   Car drives past Truman home (filmed from inside car).
0:54   Scenes of nearby streets with honor guards, roped off.
1:30   Honor guards, television reporters, people walking on streets. Airplane flying over the Truman home.
1:48   Motorcade from Carson Funeral Home takes Mr. Truman’s casket to the Harry S. Truman Library, going down Delaware Street. Airplanes are flying overhead.
2:58   Crowds gathering in front of the Library; distance view of band, guards, and crowds, lined up on front lawn of Library. Motorcade arrives at Library.
5:04   At Truman home, former President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family arrive by car and are greeted by Margaret Truman Daniel and Clifton Daniel. They go into the Truman home. The group includes Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Johnson Nugent and her husband Patrick Nugent, and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and her husband, Charles Robb. They leave.
6:56   President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon arrive by car at the Truman home and are greeted by Margaret Truman Daniel and Clifton Daniel. They go into house. Later, they leave.
7:54   The film shows a program autographed by Mr. Truman “To L. G. Blair from Harry S. Truman.”