American college football game between Michigan State Spartans and Oregon State Beavers in Portland, Oregon. Michigan State defeats Oregon State by 17-14. A on-screen PSA appears at the end, with a message encouraging viewers to vote in American elections, "Vote your choice, but VOTE!"
Students at the Oregon Institute of Technology undergo a 200,000 volts shock test in Portland, Oregon. A woman seated on a chair undergoes a hair raising test. A technician operates the machine.
A car arrives at the White House in Washington DC. President Harry S. Truman greets President of Mexico, Miguel Aleman, during state visit of Mexican President to Washington DC on April 29, 1947. Next scene shows President Truman being presented a Jewish Torah by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the newly declared State of Israel. Exterior view of south side of White House. Truman with Secretary of State, George Marshall, by the fireplace inside the White House. They discuss world affairs looking at a globe. An animated map shows the increasing Soviet Communist influence in Europe. April 3, 1948, President Truman signs the European Recovery Program (ERP), better know as the Marshall Plan, as members of Congressional leadership look on. Sacks of grain being off loaded at a dock in Italy, as part of Marshall Plan aid. Scene shifts to October 6, 1948 with crowd gathered outside the Democratic Convention at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Convention delegates applaud during President Truman's address. Officials on stage. Truman talks about his sincere desire to promote peace throughout the world. Pictures of Franklin Roosevelt and Alben Barkley on stage. Exterior view of north side of the White House. Truman seated at a table.
Basketball match between Washington and Oregon in Seattle, Washington. People watching the match. They cheer and applaud. Wade Halbrook of Oregon playing in the match. He is 7 feet 3 inches tall. Halbrook in a room. Two beds are joined for him to sleep. Halbrook sits on the bed. He wears a coat.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. Women and girls feed a donkey, there parodying the democratic party, and they place a poster on it. The poster on donkey reads 'Our next President-Thomas Dewey'. A crowd of women stands near the donkey, at the railway station terminal in Junction City, Kansas. A train arrives and emerges Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections. Women pose the donkey in front of him. He addresses the crowd. Guards control the crowd. Men show placards to Dewey as he finishes his speech and move inside.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. A railway station in United States. Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections arrives in a train. He meets people at the station terminal. He stands at the train door and addresses the crowd from train itself. On the train is written 'Dewey Victory Special'. A crowd gathers to hear his speech. Dewey along with his wife, Frances Hutt Dewey, waves at the crowd and moves inside the train.
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