GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
"GREAT UPSET OF '48" - PT2: A look at the 1948 Presidential campaign of Harry S. Truman. A preponderance of this documentary is comprised of archival B&W footage, with color contemporary interviews intermixed and duly noted as such.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: GV/MS historian ROBERT DONOVAN talks about the crisis of 12,000,000 returning soldiers and military personnel in terms of jobs and housing.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: Truman aide, GEORGE ELSEY talking about GIs returning from the war.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: WWII Homecoming. TLS pan trailer park at the base of the Rockies, evidently built for returning GI's. MS man in pilot jacket kissing his wife through the open door of their trailer.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: WWII Homecoming. MS returning Navy sailors running down ship gangplank. MCU returning sailor hugging a pretty woman.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: MCU ROBERT DONOVAN reminiscing about his return from war, being happy about finding a suit in a second hand store.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: CUs high prices of meat & dairy in grocery store during POSTWAR INFLATION.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: MS man picketing at shipping dock. GV striking Pencil Workers demanding higher wages.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: LS street packed with people, pan to campaign bus with Republican congressional candidates Mead & Lehman speaking to the people. MCU/MSs Republican candidates speaking to crowds. GV street filled with men in fedora hats. MS political poster reading "Well...Have You Had Enough? Vote Straight Republican".
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: Former Truman Aide CLARK CLIFFORD states that in 1946 the republicans held both the Senate & the House with militancy.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: MS Harry Truman exiting Capitol Building, entering car. GV long black cars pulling from Capitol Building. MS HENRY WALLACE walking past reporters.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: COLD WAR IMAGRY (Soviet, Russia): GV Red Army parade in Moscow. MCU JOSEPH STALIN saluting from balcony. High angle of Soviet troops parading in Red Square.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: Truman car arriving at the White House, reporters block the north entrance the West Wing. MS HARRY S. TRUMAN walking from car, entering White House through north entrance of the West Wing.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: ROBERT DONOVAN stating that the mood of the country thought it ridiculous for Truman to run for reelection.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
B&W ARCHIVAL: Great TLS/GVs White House renovation, including construction workers & equipment on the lawn as the Truman Balcony is built. MS wife of Sen. Robert Taft, on a radio talk show, trashing the idea of the new White House Balcony as waste of taxpayers' money, suggesting that Truman make the balcony portable so he can bring it back to Missouri with him after the 1948 elections.