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NEWSREEL STORIES FROM MARCH 1946. 1948,BERLIN AIRLIFT - MOUNTBATTEN, LAST BRITISH VICEROY LEAVES INDIA - DEWEY AND WARREN SELECTED TO RUN AS PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR GOP. JOE LOUIS RETIRES. GOP, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS. TRUMAN VS DEWEY) OLYMPIC TRY OUTS.WW1 GEN. PERSHING FUNERAL.
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"BERLIN" - "NEW DAYS OF CRISIS" - AERIAL VIEW LINE UP OF U. S. TRANSPORT PLANERS LOADED WITH FOOD FOR WEST BERLINERS AS SOVIETS BLOCK RAIL SHIPMENTS GOING IN.
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| 01:01:04 64 |
"U.S. SPEEDS AIR SHUTTLE TO BERLIN" - HEADLINES - "120 PLANES FLY FOOD INTO BERLIN". MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS PLANES BEING LOADED.
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| 01:01:28 88 |
LARGE CROWDS OUTSIDE GERMAN BANKS TO EXCHANGE MONEY BEFORE DEADLINE. AS OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT (SOVIETS) ISSUE NEW MONEY.
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| 01:01:48 108 |
NEWSPAPER (JOURNAL AMERICAN) HEADLINES : "SOVIET BOOTS TITO OUT OF COMINFORM"" AND "RUSSIA PURGES TITO FROM PARTY". - YUGOSLAVIA'S MARSHAL TITO EXITING PLANE SHAKING HANDS WITH SOVIET,'S MOLOTOV.
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| 01:02:08 128 |
"MOUNTBATTEN'S FAREWELL TO INDIA" LAST VICEROY LEAVES INDIA. MOUNTBATTEN AND WIFE SAY FAREWELL OUTSIDE PALACE IN INDIA. NEHRU AND WIFE WATCH AS 200.000 INDIAN PEOPLE SAY GOODBYE
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| 01:02:15 135 |
200,000 PEOPLE SAY GOODBYE TO THEIR LAST VICEROY
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| 01:02:42 162 |
IRON STATUETTE OF MAHATMA GANDHI PRESENTED TO MOUNTBATTEN AS THE LAST VESTIGE OF BRITISH RULE, LEAVES INDIA.
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| 01:03:03 183 |
"PALESTINE" - HAGANAH,, IRGUN, CLASH OVER ARMS SHIP" BOTH ISRAELI EXTREMEST FACTIONS FIGHT OVER ARM SHIP OFF BEACH AS UN OBSERVERS LOOK ON..
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| 01:03:31 211 |
ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE ON THE AMERICAN MADE SHIP AND ITS MUCH NEEDED CARGO, WHICH GOES UP IN EXPLOSIONS..
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| 01:03:59 239 |
"DEWEY AND WARREN" "GOP SET FOR BIG CAMPAIGN!"- DEWEY AND WARREN POSE TOGETHER. ABOVE VIEW CROWD DELEGATES AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
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| 01:04:21 261 |
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DEWEY, SHAKES HANDS WITH WARREN AFTER HE SELECTED WARREN AS HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. WARREN SPEAKS.
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| 01:05:34 334 |
WARREN AND DEWEY FAMILIES POSE TOGETHER.
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| 01:06:27 387 |
"SPORTS" - "JOE LOUIS" - "CHAMP SAYS HE'LL RETIRE". SHOTS OF LOUIS KNOCKING OUT "JERSEY JOE" WALCOTT. CU JOE LOUIS ON GOLF COURSE SPEAKS,,ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT. SAYS HE WILL "RELAX AND PLAY A LOT OF GOLF".
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| 01:07:09 429 |
"PATTY BERG" - WINS WESTERN GOLF TITLE" - FEMALE GOLF CHAMP TEES OFF. VARIOUS SHOTS GOLF GAME IN PROGRESS. SHE WINS TITLE IN OVERTIME GAME..
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| 01:08:30 510 |
"RHODES" - "WORLD WATCHES BERNADOTTES PEACE MOVES" - VARIOUS SHOTS SWEDISH COUNT BERNADOTTES MEETING WITH PALESTINE AND JEWISH LEADERS TO DISCUSS PEACE.
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| 01:09:25 565 |
WASHINGTON - "ERIC JOHNSTON (PRESIDENT OF THE MOTION PICTURE CORP.)PROTESTS BRITISH FILM QUOTA". MS VIEW EXTERIOR STATE DEPARTMENT BUILDING.
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| 01:09:36 576 |
ERIC JOHNSTON, BRIEF CASE IN HAND, ARRIVES AT STATE DEPARTMENT TO PROTEST THE LATEST BRITISH ANTI HOLLYWOOD RULING BY THE BRITISH GOVT. JOHNSTON SPEAKS.
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| 01:10:16 616 |
"THE DEWEYS HOST TO THE WARRENS" - VARIOUS SHOTS DEWEY FAMILY POSING WITH THE WARREN FAMILY OUTSIDE DEWEY'S HOME IN NEW YORK.
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| 01:11:16 676 |
"MAILLE, FRANCE" - 'ADOPTED' TOWN MEETS BENEFACTOR" - MR. AND MRS GERARD HALE OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. , WHO ADOPTED MAILLE VILLAGE 2 YEARS AGO.
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| 01:11:53 713 |
VARIOUS SHOTS MR. AND MRS HALE IN PROCESSION TO CEMETERY, LACE FLOWERS ON GRAVES OFCITIZENS OF MAILLE WHO WERE MASSACRED BY NAZIS IN 1944. 127 WERE MACHINED GUNNED FOR HARBORING A BRITISH FLYER...
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| 01:12:36 756 |
"EYES OF THE SPORTS WORLD ON OLYMPICS!" CU OLYMPICS FLAG.
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| 01:12:49 769 |
CROWDS IN STANDS AT MINNEAPOLIS STADIUM.
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| 01:12:57 777 |
ELMO PATTEN (?) BILLED AS "WORLD'S FASTEST MAN", TAKES OFF WITH OTHERS IN THE 100 METER DASH. ABOVE VIEW RACE IN PROGRESS. PATTON WINS.
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| 01:13:10 790 |
MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS 110 METER HIGH HURDLES, SHOT PUT, 200 METER DASH, ALL WON BY U. S. ATHLETES, WHO POSE AFTER WINNING.
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| 01:14:07 847 |
""SAN DIEGO" - "WOMEN AQUATIC HOPEFULS!" LS WOMEN TAKE OFF FOR BREAST STROKE,, IN THE AAU SWIMMING AND DIVING COMPETITION. GENE WOLFSON WINS BREAST STROKE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
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| 01:14:46 886 |
LS ANNE CURTIS OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEFENDS AND WINS THE 800 METER FREE STYLE CONTEST..
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| 01:15:22 922 |
DIVING -MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN FEMALE DIVING, INCLUDING 1936 OLYMPIC CHAMPION, MARJORIE GESTRING AND DEFENDING CHAMPION JOHANN OLSEN . OLSEN WINS IS GIVEN TRIPHY.
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| 01:16:06 966 |
"FRANCE'S TURF CLASSICS!" - "300,000 SEE 'MY LOVE' WIN GRAND PRIX!". VIEW HUGE RACING CROWD ATTENDING RACE.
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| 01:16:24 984 |
HORSES TAKE OFF FOR START OF RACE - VARIOUS SHOTS RACE IN PROGRESS. "MY LOVE" WINS IN EXITING RACE. CU AGA KAHN, PART OWNER OF MY LOVE IS THERE AT WINNER'S CIRCLE..
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| 01:17:29 1049 |
"NEW YORK" - "HERO OF ISRAEL BROUGHT HOME FOR BURIAL" - CU PHOTO OF COL. DAVID MARCUS. HONOR GUARD STANDS AT ATTENTION AS BODY IS REMOVED FROM PLANE AS FAMILY MOURNS..
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| 01:18:09 1089 |
NEW YORK MAYOR O'DWYER AND OTHERS STAND AT ATTENTION AS FUNERAL CARE PASSES BY CITY HALL. MARCUS WAS NY'S COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.
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| 01:18:36 1116 |
"CZECHOSLOVAKIA" "FIRST COMMUNIST PRESIDENT TAKES OVER" - VARIOUS SHOTS 300 COMMUNIST DELEGATES RAISE HANDS TO "ELECT" (UNOPPOSED) KLEMENT GOTTWALD AS THE FIRST RED PRESIDENT
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| 01:19:34 1174 |
MONTAGE - STAGED DEMONSTRATION IN PRAGUE TO CLAIM THE NEW RULER.
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| 01:20:07 1207 |
"FASHION NEWS" - NEW YORK - "FURS LOOK AHEAD" MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS FASHION MODELS SHOW FUR COATS.
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| 01:21:31 1291 |
"KANSAS CITY, MO." - 'GOOD GOVERNMENT - JR STYLE!" HUNDREDS SCHOOL KIDS MARCH TO WOODS, SET UP TENTS AS THEY BUILD A JUNIOR CITY, IN PREPARATION OF NATIONAL OBSERVANCE OF "YOUTH MONTH" .
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| 01:21:49 1309 |
KIDS SETTING UP TENTS FOR OUTDOOR LIFE. KIDS GATHER AROUND TEACHER FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION. THEY CARRY OUT COMMUNITY ELECTIONS.
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| 01:22:34 1354 |
"MT. RAINIER" - "SUMMER SKIERS BEAT THE HEAT!" VARIOUS SHOTS PRETTY WOMEN IN SUMMER OUTFITS GO SKIING DURING HEAT WAVE AT PARADISE VALLEY, MT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK.
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| 01:23:24 1404 |
FEMALE SKIERS IN SUMMER SHORTS SKIING DOWN MOUNTAIN.
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| 01:23:36 1416 |
"FIRST FILMS" - "JAP QUAKE DESTROYS AN ENTIRE CITY!" MAP OF JAPAN SHOWS "FUKUI" THE LOCATION OF QUAKE.
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| 01:23:52 1432 |
MONTAGE AERIAL SHOTS SHOWS FUKUI, CITY OF 85,000, IN COMPLETE RUINS. VARIOUS SHOTS COLLAPSED BUILDINGS. WORKERS SIFT THROUGH RUINS FOR BODIES.. 1600 DEAD, 2600 INJURED.
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| 01:25:55 1555 |
" BAVARIAN ALPS" - TIGHT-ROPE SENSATION - TWO MILES UP!"MONTAGE . VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG SIEGFRIED BACH WALKING TIGHTROPE 10,000 FEET HIGH ACROSS ALPS MOUNTAIN PEAKS.
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| 01:26:17 1577 |
LS BACK STOPS AND BACKS OFF SO ROPE CAN BE TIGHTENS. HE THEN COMPLETES MISSION. GREAT SHOTS BACH WALKING HIGH ABOVE MOUNTAIN OEAKS.
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| 01:27:32 1652 |
"PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS!" - IKE"EISENHOWER, NEW PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, ADDRESSES HUGE CROWD ON STEPS OF THE UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK CITY.
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| 01:27:55 1675 |
EISENHOWER HOPS INTO LIMO WITH OTHERS, FOR TRIP TO GOLF COURSE. VARIOUS SHOTS EISENHOWER TEEING OFF AT GOLF COURSE..
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| 01:28:22 1702 |
CROWDS OF DELEGATES AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, CARRY "IKE FOR PRESIDENT" PLACKARDS AND SIGNS..
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| 01:28:33 1713 |
JAMES ROOSEVELT, SON OF LATE FDR, SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF EISENHOWER FOR PRESIDENT (IKE REFUSED TO RUN),AS HE (JAMES) LEAVES FOR THE CONVENTION.
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| 01:28:57 1737 |
PRESIDENT TRUMAN EXITS TRAIN IN MISSOURI WITH PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA. A BRONZE STATUE OF BOLIVAR, A GIFT FROM THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT, IS UNVEILED AS HUGE CROWD WATCHES.
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| 01:29:32 1772 |
CU TRUMAN SPEAKS AT THE DEDICATION
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| 01:30:00 1800 |
"HEAT BEATERS" - "ICE COLD SKI-JUMPING!" 52 TONS OF ICE, 2 1/2 TONS OF STRAW, AND PRETTY GIRLS IN SWIM SUITS TO ACT AS MIXERS. THE RESULT A SKI-JUMPING HILL AT LAKE PLACID,IN JULY..
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| 01:30:39 1839 |
VARIOUS SHOTS SKI JUMPERS SKIING DOWN HAND MADE SLOPE
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| 01:31:02 1862 |
"DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER IN PHILADELPHIA" - :HEATED PRELIMINARIES OF 30TH NATIONAL CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY" AERIAL VIEWS PARADES OUTSIDE CONVENTION HALL IN PHILA.
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| 01:31:37 1897 |
POLITICIAN JAMES A. FARLEY ARRIVES AT HALL. POSTER OF DONKEY WITH SIGN "I"M SO WILD ABOUT "HARRY" (TRUMAN).. PARADERS CARRY LARGE PHOTOS OF TRUMAN.
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| 01:32:13 1933 |
MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS DISAPPOINTED ANTI-TRUMAN DEMOCRATS TAKE DOWN "EISENHOWER FOR PRESIDENT" SIGNS, DISMANTLE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS, WHEN IKE REFUSES TO RUN.
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| 01:32:40 1960 |
VARIOUS SHOTS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS INCLUDING GOVERNOR STROM THURMOND OF SO. CAROLINA VEHEMENTLY DENOUNCE TRUMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM. DESPITE THESE OBJECTIONS, TRUMAN WINS THE DAY.
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| 01:33:48 2028 |
CROWD DELEGATES GATHER TO ELECT A VICE PRESIDENT CANDIDATE TO RUN WITH TRUMAN. KENTUCKY'S ALBIN BARKLEY IS SELECTED. BARKLEY SPEAKS TO DELEGARES.
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| 01:35:02 2102 |
"U. S. READY FOR OLYMPICS!" "FINAL TRACK TRYOUTS MARKED BY UPSETS!" MONTAGE - VARIOUS ABOVE VIES, 100 METER DASH,200 METER DASH, POLE VAULT, 400 METER RACE, 110 METER HIGH HURDLES, AT EVANSTON, ILL. WINNERS POSE.
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| 01:36:46 2206 |
"DETROIT" - "OLYMPIC TEAMS PICKED FOR SWIM, DIVING". MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS, MEN, WOMEN'S DIVING. MEN'S 400 METER FREE STYLE RACE. EN'S 200 METER BREAST STROKE, WOMEN'S 100 METER FREE STYLE.
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| 01:38:55 2335 |
"CRUCIAL TEST CONFRONTS DEMOCRATS!" "TRUMAN AND BARKLEY NOMINATED AT HEATED SESSION!" "SOUTHERNERS FIGHT CIVIL RIGHTS PLANK." "DELEGATES FROM ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI BOLT CONVENTION".
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| 01:39:11 2351 |
"PRESIDENT TRUMAN DELIVERS CHALLENGING ACCEPTANCE SPEECH!: "CALLS REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS INTO SPECIAL SESSION".
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| 01:40:33 2433 |
AFTER ANTI CIVIL RIGHTS PROPOSAL IS TURNED DOWN BY DELEGATE VOTE, SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS WALK OUT OF CONVENTION HALL.
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| 01:40:56 2456 |
PRESIDENT TRUMAN WATCHES BLISTERING BATTLE GOING ON IN THE CONVENTION HAL, ON TELEVISION IN OVAL OFFICE.
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| 01:42:34 2554 |
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS NOMINATE RICARD BREVARD RUSSELL TO RUN AGAINST TRUMAN IN PRIMARY. TRUMAN EVENTUALLY WINS AND ALBIN BARKLEY IS HIS RUNNING MATE.
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| 01:44:28 2668 |
TRUMAN AND BARKLEY COME TO PODIUM TO ACCEPT NOMINATION. TRUMAN MAKES BLISTERING ACCEPTANCE SPEAKS.
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| 01:47:37 2857 |
"NEW TRUCE FOR PALESTINE!" "JEWS, ARABS HEED ORDER BY U.N.!" VARIOUS SHOTS UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL IN SESSION.
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| 01:48:47 2927 |
"NOMINEES OF SOUTH!" - "STATES RIGHTS CONVENTION NAMES TICKET" - VARIOUS SHOTS SOUTHERN DELEGATES HOLDING THEIR OWN CONVENTION IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA. NAME STROM THURMOND TO RUN AGAINST TRUMAN IN PRIMARIES. CONFEDERATE FLAGS ARE EVERYWHERE.
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| 01:49:39 2979 |
"DODGERS-TO-GIANTS!" "DUROCHER ASTOUNDS BASEBALL!" VARIOUS SHOTS DUROCHER SHOWN IN BROOKLYN DODGER AND NEW YORK GIANTS UNIFORMS AS HE TRANSFERS FROM ONE TO OTHER.
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| 01:50:02 3002 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES TELLING OF DUROCHER TRANSFER. VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE BUYING AND READING THE HEADLINE STORIES. VARIOUS SHOTS BROOKLYN FANS BEING INTERVIEWED
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| 01:50:55 3055 |
LS EXTERIOR EBBETS FIELD. MORE SHOTS DUROCHER ON FIELD IN DUGOUT.
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| 01:51:35 3095 |
"PERSHING GOES TO REST" - "U. S. PAYS TRIBUTE TO A. E. F. (AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) CHIEF". THOUSANDS LINE UP TO VIEW BODY AT CAPITAL ROTUNDA, IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
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| 01:52:11 3131 |
PERSHING ON HORSEBACK IN FRANCE DURING WW1. PERSHING WITH PRESIDENT WILSON. GENERAL EISENHOWER, BRADLEY, PARADES AT FUNERAL. CROWD WATCHES IN RAIN.
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| 01:53:45 3225 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS FUNERAL OF PERSHING AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY. PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND SEC. OF STATE GEORGE MARSHALL ARE THERE.
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