Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs Congress resolution for a probe of the President's TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) plans, seated at office in Washington DC. View of water flowing from a dam. Various views of dams and power generation facilities.
Three terrific explosions rock eleven story grain elevator in New Orleans, Louisiana. View of the wrecked building. Men try to rescue trapped people from the building.
Agriculture department officials in conference discuss reading maps in Washington DC. Sign over door reads 'AAA Director of Information'. Woman types report. Bundles of AAA checks in the treasury building. Addressograph in process addressing U.S. Government checks to recipients. Piles of U.S. government checks.
President Harry Truman aboard the USS Missouri, returning from the Pan American Conference in Rio. He dines with the sailors. Scenes of homecoming in Independence Missouri for President Harry Truman. View of his daughter Margaret and his wife Elizabeth (Bess) seated in their home. He shakes hands with neighbors of all races and creeds and visits his lifelong friend Ed Jacobson at his Westport Men's Clothing Store, where the two men are seen in conversation. Views of the town of Grandview and his mother's cottage there. Harry Truman kisses his elderly mother. At his office in the White House, President Truman poses with 'March of Dimes' poster boy, 3 year old Terry Tullos, and gives him a hug.
Narrated in German. President Harry S Truman reads Japanese surrender announcement. Woman holds a poster that reads 'Victory Japan Surrenders'. News correspondents run in White House corridors. People celebrate VJ Day or Victory over Japan Day on streets in Chicago, San Francisco, Frisco Chinatown, and in New York City Times Square. Crowd gathers near Hotel Astor. Celebration in London with the King and Queen in horse drawn carriage leaves Buckingham Palace. Opening of British Parliament, shows Lord Edward Halifax, Lord John Allsebrook Simon, U.S. Ambassador John C Winant, Admiral Harold R Stark and a representative from Saudi Arabia arrive in a car. Crowd runs towards Buckingham Palace. The Royal family waves to the crowd from Palace balcony.
The launch of SM-65A Atlas missile, test number 449, takes place from the Air Force Missile test Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Close views of the missile taking off and fire and smoke from rocket boosters.
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