The Army-McCarthy hearings held by the United State's Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations on Senator Joseph McCarthy underway. The hearing reviews various photographs of Schine together with senior military officials. Army counsel Joseph Welch seen holding up the photograph and talking about it. The photographs are shown to jury members for inspection. Roy Cohn, Chief Counsel for Joseph McCarthy speaks at the microphone with the photos on the table beside him. Jury chairmen, Senator Karl Mundt with other subcommittee members. Clip closes with an unrelated shot of the House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol with a meeting of the full House in session.
President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the nation by radio after his return from Berlin and the Potsdam Conference. President Truman speaks of ruined city of Berlin Germany. He expresses his worries about the common German civilians. He discusses establishment of U.S. military bases over various parts of the world to maintain World Peace.
President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the nation after his return from Berlin and from the Potsdam Conference. President Truman expresses gladness to be home. He says that the United States doesn't want any territory or profit from the World War II. Truman briefs his plans for acquiring military bases in various parts of world, in order to maintain World Peace, in a manner consistent with the United Nations charter.
President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the nation after his return from the Potsdam Conference, following conclusion of World War II in Europe. President Truman sitting at a table giving his speech. He briefs about his plans to rebuild social, political and economic life in Germany. He discusses disarmament, eliminating Nazi German ideology, redefining education, factories and industries for peaceful purposes would lead to the reform of Germany.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States addresses the American people by radio, from Washington DC, following his return from the Potsdam Conference. President Truman at the White House giving his speech. He talks about the Berlin conference. He thanks the Soviet Union for its allied role against Germany and against Imperial Japan.
President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the United States following his return from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, during World War II. President sitting at a desk at the White House explains the choice of Hiroshima as a target for the atomic bomb due to its focus as an industrial rather than a residential center. (This speech is made on the same day as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, but either before the Nagasaki bombing occurred, or before it was confirmed and announced publicly). President Truman warns of additional atomic bomb attacks on more industries in Japan and says the Japanese can foresee what will happen in a future atomic bomb attack, based on what happened at Hiroshima. Truman reminds about the number of warnings issued to the Japanese by the US, Chinese and British governments and how the Japanese rejected them. In a foreshadowing of the attack on Nagasaki, Truman says "I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction."
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