Summary

Scenes from Pres Harry Truman's whistle stop tour, with crowd in North Dakota and Truman speech in Tacoma, WA

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 36398
Clip SR003328_01_03mov
Date 09/30/1952
Title Scenes from Pres Harry Truman's whistle stop tour, with crowd in North Dakota and Truman speech in Tacoma, WA
Description MS two female and two male Native Americans in traditional indigenous clothing stand in crowd with women and children / LS President Harry Truman speaks from back of train, listening crowd in foreground / CU older Native American female laughing / Native American man and woman on back of train with Truman and daughter Margaret, man shakes Margaret's hand / POV train: children run behind train / front of train from back of train as in rounds curve on prairie land // 10/2/1952: crowd in auditorium, TV cameramen and cameras on scaffolding, banner that reads Stevenson-Sparkman // 9/29/1952 MS Truman and Margaret standing on back of train, Margaret waves, crowd in foreground / Pan huge crowd waving //10/2/1952: crowd in Tacoma armory, TV cameramen and cameras on scaffolding, banner that reads Stevenson-Sparkman / Pan standing applauding crowd in armory, with some African-American people in crowd // 9/29/1952: Tilt down: huge crowd around President Truman standing at back of train / Tilt up Truman at podium, Margaret beside him waving and smiling / VS crowd waving and applauding // 10/2/1952: crowd in Tacoma armory, TV cameramen and cameras on scaffolding / Tilt down Truman speaks from podium, other VIPs seated on stage / from behind three cameramen work TV cameras, Truman gives speech from podium on stage in bkgd / CU audience applauds, two African-American men in audience / audience rises in standing ovation, bkgd: Truman on stage turns from podium to face standing audience on stage, two cameramen film stage / CU two female audience members standing and applauding / Deep shot auditorium audience and stage / audience rises in standing ovation, applauding and waving
Personality Harry S Truman, Margaret Truman
Country United States
Province/State Montana
City Glasgow

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