GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
"GREAT UPSET OF '48" - PT 5: 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 - PT5
B&W ARCHIVAL: MS banner on building reading "States Rights Democrats". LS group of men carrying a confederate flag walking in to building w/awning reading "States Rights Democrats". MS southern men walking into building. LS meeting of the first convention of the States Rights Party (a.k.a. the Dixiecrats in Birmingham, Alabama), man waves a Confederate flag. GV delegates of Mississippi. GV delegates w/man carrying a handwritten sign reading "Not Truman but Thurmond". MS of South Carolina Governor STROM THURMOND speaking against civil rights and defending state's rights to discriminate against blacks. .. this simply means that s it s another effort on the part of the President to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled-for and these damnedable proposals he has recommended under the guise of so-called civil rights. Hall filled with delegates rising to their feet. MS Strom Thurman standing w/man.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
COLOR: Strom Thurmond laughably saying the issue was of Federal vs. State power, denying that it was motivated by racial issues. Civil rights activist and critic of Thurmond, Joseph Rauh Jr, replies that "States Rights" was never used as an argument for any issue besides Civil Rights.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: Footage of 1948 Peace (Progressive) Party convention: CU banner hanging from building reading "Founding Convention of the New Party". MS male delegates waving from Greyhound bus with banner reading "Minnesota for Wallace". MS of HENRY WALLACE & entourage walking outside hall.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
COLOR: Virginia Durr was present at the 1948 Progressive Party convention and she is reminiscing about the event.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
B&W ARCHIVAL: 1948 Peace (Progressive) Party convention. Young delegates waving placards, cheering. MS Henry Wallace walking onto stage waving to the public. GV delegates cheering, man in front holds sign reading "American Labor Party-Ladies Garment Center-New York Delegation". MCU Henry Wallace at podium, I am committed to peaceful negotiations with the Soviet government. GV delegates.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
DO NOT USE: Cartoon depicting Truman doing a split as the Donkey that he's standing on separates into two halves [the cartoonist could have made it a lot better by writing "progressive" on the head of the donkey and "States Rights" on the, well, the other end].
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COLOR: CU TIP O'NEILL describing the polarization of the Democrats, the situation in 1948 looking grim.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
B&W ARCHIVAL: September 6, 1948, Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan. LS massive amount of people gathered at outdoor rally to hear Truman speak. Truman on podium, shaking hands & waving. High angle LS massive crowd gathered. MS Truman at podium. GV sea of people gathered, Caucasian & African American men & women mixed in support of Truman. MS HARRY S. TRUMAN speaking to large Labor crowd, If the congressional elements that made the Taft-Hartley law are allowed to remain in power, and if these elements are further encouraged by the election of a Republican President, you men of labor can expect to be hit by a steady barrage of body blows.
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COLOR: Brief shot of former Truman aide CLARK CLIFFORD talking about the Slave Labor Act.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
B&W ARCHIVAL: MS car with pro-Truman Banner that reading "No TAFT-HARTLEY-Slave Labor Bill". MS car with banner draped over back reading "Keep America Free Veto Taft-Hartley Bill". MS woman marching with sign of similar anti-Taft-Hartley sentiment. MS woman painting anti-Taft-Hartley slogan on hood of car.
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B&W ARCHIVAL Stately home of Thomas Dewey in Albany, NY. Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS DEWEY standing on porch with reporters. Mr. & Mrs. THOMAS DEWEY posing on front porch of their home. MS Dewey seated with reporters on his front lawn. Mr. Dewey & EARL WARREN standing in front of garden shed, touching the lucky horseshoe hanging over the door. Great MS press cameramen snapping flashbulbs for the perfect shot (old school paparazzi).
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COLOR: BURNS ROPER, former pollster, saying they had lots of problems getting dependable numbers in the polls for 1948 election.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT5
DO NOT USE: Photo
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COLOR: MCU of BURNS ROPER, former pollster, saying they had lots of problems getting dependable numbers in the polls for 1948 election.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MS of Mr. & Mrs. Dewey boarding their "Victory Special" campaign train, standing on back platform. MS young school boys gathered to take part in the Dewey excitement. POV shot from behind Dewey as his campaign train pulls out of station, he waves to the crowd. POV tracking shot from Dewey train as it passes through station, supporters are gathered on platform, Dewey - Warren banners are hung.
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COLOR: CU journalist PHILLIP GEYELIN recalling train campaigning.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: Ground level TLS train traveling along track, supporters seen lining the way. MSs Dewey advisors in meeting on train. MS Dewey on the train reading papers.