PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: LAST RITES Part 1

Description

Summary: Funeral cars pass before patients at Warm Springs, Ga, most of whom are women in wheelchairs. Cut to rail road station at Warm Springs as funeral train pulls away from camera. Head-on shot, funeral train pulls into Union Station, Washington, D C. MLS, President's daughter, Anne and husband, and son, Elliot and wife, Faye Emerson at railroad station platform. MCU, Vice President Harry S Truman, Mr James Byrnes, and Mr Henry A Wallace. HSs, horse-drawn caisson with flag-draped casket moves from station. FS, VSs, mourners line streets through which caisson passes. Excellent views of people crying. HSs, troops and vehicles pass in parade; planes fly overhead. Casket is carried into White House, followed by immediate members of the family. Ints of East Room, bier is displayed near window. Chandeliers are lit, military guards stand alongside casket. Cut to gardens of family estate at Hyde Park, N.Y. Flag-draped casket is carried to grave. Mrs Roosevelt and family follows. Vice President Harry S Truman, Mrs Truman, and Gen Harry Vaughn, together with military and civilian dignitaries, stand at attention. MS, Vice President Truman, wife, and Gen Vaughn with heads bowed. James Brynes is visible in bg. Seq: Flag is removed from casket. RVs, Mrs Roosevelt and family with heads bowed. Volley is fired over grave. MS, Elliot Roosevelt saluting, profile view. MSs, Mrs Roosevelt, Anne, and Elliot leave grounds. CU, casket.PRESIDENT TRUMAN: 1ST MESSAGE.: Ints, hazy, Congress applauds as Truman enters. MLSs, MSs, Harry S Truman delivers speech saying in part... "We must carry on", "...Americans will continue the fight for freedom..." and finishes by saying, "Our demand has been and remains unconditional surrender".

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities