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Chief Justice Stone swears in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC, and Truman's early life highlights.

Chief Justice Harland F. Stone swears-in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC as President of the United States. James Forrestal, Edward R Stettinius and others look on. Views of the town of Lamar, Missouri where Truman was born, and of his home in Independence, Missouri. Pictures of Harry Truman in his World War I uniform and battle scenes during the first World War. Truman in front of a statue as a newly elected Senator. Harry Truman chosen as Vice President and view of him speaking with President Roosevelt. View of U.S. Capitol and Washington monument during funeral procession of Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with White House flag at half staff. President Harry Truman gives speech to Congress in the U.S. Capitol.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023232
Construction of the Panama Canal

Construction of the Panama Canal connecting the Caribbean Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Views of abandoned and failed first attempt by French team led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, with scenes of Panama natives cutting vegetation with machetes. Scene of abandoned canal work area. Scenes of United States work to build the canal beginning in 1903. Steam shovels digging and moving earth. Laborers construct railroad for use in canal building. General Glen Edgerton talks about the construction difficulties from malaria, and the worker prescription of quinine three times daily. Views of British and French workers on the site working and arriving by rail to work. Dynamite explosion removes rumble for railroad construction. View of locks under construction 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide. Excerpt from interview with former Canal Zone Governor and Congressman Maurice Thatcher, who characterizes the project as the greatest liberty that man had ever taken with nature. (Thatcher was honored when the first bridge connecting both sides of the Panama Canal was named after him as "Thatcher Ferry Bridge". In 1979 the name was officially changed to the Bridge of the Americas.) Clip next shows 1970's aerial view of the Panama Canal. Ships moving through the Panama Canal.

Location: Panama
Date: 1903
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023504
U.S. military personnel in old French defense tunnel and tower operation room of Cam Ranh Bay Defense fortification in Vietnam.

Views from U.S. held defense fortifications at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Interior view of living quarter of United States personnel. Old tunnel of French Defense area. Sign reads 'CPO quarters'. Man stands over radio shack in operation tower. Soldier talks over phone in the operation room. Lt. J .W. Allen, Operations Officer, in his office. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam
Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023520
Harbor Patrol Command Post on top of mountain near Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.

View of old French gun. Quonset hut. United States military personnel dig. Boxes secured with lines, attached to block and tackle. Look out post on top of the hill. Harbor Patrol Command Post on top of the mountain. Sign reads 'Restricted Area, Keep Out'.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023522
German Tiger Tank burns on a field in Chartres, France.

German Tiger Tank burns on a field in Chartres, France. United States soldiers with guns and tanks on a street. French civilians watch the soldiers. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944, August 15
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023537
Captured Nazi prisoners walk on road in Chambois France.

Captured German prisoners of war walk on road in Chambois, France, guarded by U.S. soldiers during World War 2. Faces of German soldiers as they pass. Dead German soldier lays on side of road as line of prisoners walks by. United States soldiers walk behind Nazi prisoners.

Location: France
Date: 1944, August 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023539
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