Motion Picture MP82-4
Administrative Information
A short educational film utilizing footage from the television series Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman, about the decision to drop the atomic bomb. This film includes segments of former President Truman speaking about his decision.
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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.
Shot List
- Reel 1
1:00 | World War II combat scenes: concentration camp scenes; refugees. | |
1:43 | Franklin D. Roosevelt's death; swearing in of Harry S. Truman. | |
2:03 | Oak Ridge Tennessee Plant; Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic Bomb experiments. | |
2:32 | July 16, 1945 - Alamagordo test explosion. | |
3:10 | Truman speaks of decision to use bomb on Japan. | |
3:26 | Fighting in Pacific; Kamikaze raids. Truman speaks of Japanese tenacity in fighting to their death. | |
5:27 | Emperor Hirohito; comments on Japanese culture. | |
5:46 | Truman speaks of fears of losses in taking the main island of Japan. | |
6:01 | Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes in Oval Office. | |
6:13 | Combat scenes; sea burials. | |
7:01 | Conventional bombing of Japan. | |
7:42 | Truman speaks of bomb. | |
8:40 | Bombing sense; ultimatum to Tokyo to surrender. | |
9:30 | Wendover Field - practicing for dropping Atomic bomb; B-29s. | |
10:42 | Enola Gay scenes; Aug. 6, 1945 - pilot describes flight and dropping bomb on Hiroshima. | |
11:48 | Hiroshima after bomb. | |
12:33 | Emperor reads proclamation; September 7, 1945 - surrender of Japan. | |
13:03 | Victims of bomb; destruction scenes; October 1952 - scene of first Hydrogen bomb test at island that was destroyed. | |
14:21 | Japan destruction scenes. |