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United States Senator Harry S Truman shakes hands with members of his reelection campaign staff in Missouri.

Senator Harry S Truman in his office at the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Kansas City, Missouri. Senator Truman shakes hands with campaign workers on the occasion of his reelection as Senator. Truman then reads a statement for the press.

Location: Kansas City Missouri United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063660
First annual National Picking Jamboree at cotton fields in BlytheVille, Arkansas, won by Harry Mason of Missouri.

First annual National Picking Jamboree underway at cotton fields in BlytheVille, Arkansas. People stand along fields and watch the competing 132 cotton pickers from all over the South. A small child on cloth sheet in the field picks cotton. The winner 'Harry Mason' aged 15 from Missouri awarded prize money $ 1000 by the guests.

Location: Blythe ville Arkansas USA
Date: 1940, October 16
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037166
Cuban Chief of Army Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista honors officers and reviews Parade on Independence day in in Havana, Cuba

Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day in in Havana, Cuba. Cuban officers stand in line saluting. Cuban Chief of Army Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista honors the officers. He pins badges on their uniforms. Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day. Officers march on horseback. Troops march on road during the Independence Day Parade.

Location: Havana Cuba
Date: 1940, October 10
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064154
Harry S. Truman, president of Old Trails Association, is honored at site of Madonna of the Trail statue in Lexington, Missouri.

Dignitaries and people gather at the NSDAR Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days in Lexington, Missouri. The memorial (one of 12 identical ones) was established by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and created by sculptor August Leimbach. Harry S. Truman, then Missouri's director for the Federal Re-Employment program (part of the Civil Works Administration), and President of the Old Trails Association, speaks to Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Chairman of the National Old Trails Committee. Mrs. Moss, in 1927, had designed the memorial that was sculpted by Leimbach, and dedicated in 1928. View of "Madonna of the Trail" inscribed on the main statue. Harry S. Truman, who later in 1934 was elected Senator of Missouri, holds up two miniature bookend models of the statue, which are being given to him as a gift for serving as President of the Old Trails Association. (Truman had also delivered the keynote address at the statue unveiling 6 years earlier). View from behind the statue with the Lexington Bridge, a seven-span truss bridge on Route 13, crossing over the Missouri River.

Location: Lexington Missouri USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029843
President Franklin D Roosevelt delivers a speech about the Selective Service System in Washington DC, United States.

Official and officers draw draft under Selective Service System at the Department of Labor auditorium in Washington DC, United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt delivers a speech on the occasion, during the lead up to America's involvement in World War 2. He reveals that 95 percent of the people registered under the Selective Service System are not required by the nation and will not be called to military service. He also encourages those new recruits selected for military service to answer the call for duty and defend the independence of the nation. He declares peace keeping as the main task of the United States Armed Forces, and speaks of the those called as members of a peace time army.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, October
Duration: 6 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048963
President Franklin D Roosevelt gives a message to the Congress about rearmament during World War II in Washington DC.

A session of the Congress in Washington DC, United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt in his message to the Congress emphasizes about the need for rearmament to avert the danger of an attack during the World War II. In his speech he talks about the need to protect the American hemisphere against an invasion. He also enumerates the possible threats to the independence of United States. He lays emphasis on the need to increase the production of ammunition to get ready for the war in case of an attack.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, May 16
Duration: 7 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048965
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