PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN'S INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH, MONUMENT GROUNDS, WASHINGTON, DC Part 1

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CU, top of sign, "175th Anniversary of Declaration of Independence." ML, MS (night), the Pres at lectern making his speech. Says the Pres: "This is a very special occasion. Here in Washington tonight, in Philadelphia, and throughout our whole country, we are celebrating an anniversary of great importance.... Some things have not changed at all since 1776. For one thing, freedom is still expensive..., The United Nations will not succeed without a struggle, just as the Declaration of Independence did not succeed without a struggle.... Men of the armed forces in Korea, you will go down in history as the first army to fight under the flag of a world organization in the defense of human freedom.... We have shown the world that the United Nations Charter is not just a scrap of paper.... The Soviet rulers are trying to destroy the very idea of freedom, in every part of the world.... If we, with all that we have in our favor, do not succeed, no other free government can survive--anywhere in the world--and the whole great experiment that began in 1776 will be over and done with. I believe we will succeed."

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities