GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT7
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT7
"GREAT UPSET OF '48". 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 contemporay interviews intermixed and duly noted as such.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT7
COLOR: MS program host Paul Duke standing in front of train station in downtown Des Moines, Iowa talking about Dewey's first rally speech only mentioned farming once, this was republican territory & his advisers weren't worried.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MSs of THOMAS DEWEY speaking at Drake University in Iowa, speech is intercut with cheering crowd. Tonight we enter upon a campaign to unite all Americans. I pledge to you that on next January 20, there will begin in Washington, the biggest unraveling, unsnarling, untangling operation in our nation s history.
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COLOR: MS journalist George Mills & program host Paul Duke walking through doors of the Drake University Field House. MS George Mills & Paul Duke seated in field house bleachers as Mills talks about his impression of Dewey.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: THOMAS DEWEY speaking at Drake University intercut with cheering audience. So far as I am concerned so far as the Republican Party is concerned, this campaign will not create division among our people.
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DO NOT USE: B&W still of young TV journalist Eric Sevareid, with CBS microphone.
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COLOR: MCU ERIC SEVAREID recalling Dewey ignoring polls & thinking he could protect his lead without reaching out to voters.
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COLOR MCU journalist PHILLIP GEYELIN recalling that he refused to campaign hard.
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COLOR MSs former Dewey aide JOHN BURTON watching tape of Dewey Iowa speech, remarking that there's nothing there (no substance).
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B&W ARCHIVAL: GV/MS President HARRY S. TRUMAN with Supreme Court Chief Justice FRED VINSON on White House lawn.
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Shots of newspaper headlines listing Truman blunders in foreign policy.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: Thomas Dewey in convertible at campaign appearance, standing up to wave to the large amount of supporters gathered in the street.
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COLOR: MCU Journalist/Historian Robert Donovan recalling the 1948 campaign.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: Thomas Dewey speaking at rally, taking only soft jabs at Truman; speech intercut with cheering crowd waving American flags. It is desperately urgent that we get an administration which will not make blunders in the future.
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COLOR: MCU former Dewy Aide, John Burton.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MS Thomas Dewey stepping onto bus.
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COLOR: former Truman aide CLARK CLIFFORD talking about Dewey's image, says that Dewey couldn't play hardball politics, seemed too soft and well-groomed to fight Truman, notes the famous Alice Roosevelt barb that "Dewey looks like the little man on a wedding cake".
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MS wedding cake, complete with figurines of couple on top.
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COLOR: former Truman aide CLARK CLIFFORD talking about Dewey's image, says that Dewey couldn't play hardball politics, seemed too soft and well-groomed to fight Truman
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MS Thomas Dewey & wife at public event.
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COLOR: shot of former Dewey campaign manager HERBERT BROWNELL talking about the efforts to get Dewey to shave off his moustache, which his wife refused to allow.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: TLS of Dewey campaign train pulling into station. MS THOMAS DEWEY and wife in their train car, smiling at each other. Tracking POV from train as it pulls out of station, people seen gathered on platform. GV Dewey waving to public from train platform on campaign Whistle-Stop (1948).
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COLOR: shots former Dewey aide JOHN BURTON, NY Times writer JAMES RESTON, journalist PHILLIP GEYELIN, and Dewey personal sec'ty LILLIAN GOODRICH recalling a near disaster with the crowd and Dewey's train at campaign stop in Illinois, which ultimately made him look bad because Dewey got rattled.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: GV male laborers outside factory. TLS workers in factory, huge gears turning.
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COLOR: Journalist Phillip Geyelin talking about unions.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MSs of Progressive candidate HENRY WALLACE campaigning, stepping off of train. CU of Mr. Wallace giving fired-up speech that his campaign is for "The Progressive party stands for peace first, and last, and all the time".
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B&W ARCHIVAL: MSs of Red Army truck at roadblock during Soviet blockade of Berlin. Shot of the word "COMMUNISM!" hurtling towards the camera. VO says Cold War tensions hurt Mr. Wallace's' chances to win.
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B&W ARCHIVAL: Progressive candidate HENRY WALLACE campaigning
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B&W ARCHIVAL: March 17, 1948 HARRY TRUMAN speaking at black tie affair, I do not want and I will not accept the political support of Henry Wallace and his Communists.
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COLOR: Civil Rights Activist, Joseph Rauh Jr. and Wallace press secretary STEPHEN FISCHER recalling that Wallace was an anti-Communist who thought he could negotiate and get along with Stalin. Shot of Progressive Party member VIRGINIA FOSTER DURR recalling this to be true.