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President Harry Truman attends baseball game between St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators in September 1945

U.S. President Harry Truman arrives at Washington's Griffith Stadium in a car flanked by several Secret Service agents. Announcer notes this is the first time a president has attended a baseball game since the start of World War Two. President Truman and first lady Bess Truman take seats. Truman signs an autograph. Truman, a lefty, receives baseball from Washington Senators' manager Ossie Bluege and throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Also in attendance is the commissioner of baseball, Albert "Happy" Chandler. Game begins as visiting St. Louis Browns take the field. The Senators' second baseman George Myatt gets a hit to advance George Case. Washington star Cecil Travis (playing in his very first game since returning from 3+ years military service) makes an infield out but drives in the Senators' first run. Washington goes on to win the game 4-1.

Date: 1945, September 8
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046534
General Jonathan Mathew Wainwright returns back to the U.S. after World War II and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor.

U.S. Army General, Jonathan Mathew Wainwright reviews a parade in San Francisco and Washington DC and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from U.S. President Harry S. Truman. General Wainwright gets off a plane in San Francisco. A crowd stands on both sides of a road. The General meets his wife in Washington DC. They go in a car and wave at the crowd. Posters on poles read 'Welcome Home 'Skinny''. President Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to the General in Washington DC.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046535
Mr. Alexander Sachs is greeted by Mr. Howell G. Crim, Chief White House usher, at the White House in Washington DC.

New York banker Alexander Sachs visits the White House in Washington DC. A Cadillaccar pulls up at the White House. Mr. Alexander Sachs leaves the car and enters the White house. Mr. Sachs enters the reception room of the White House, where Chief White House Usher, .Howell G. Crim greets him. (Note: these actions are repeated a number of times in this sequence, from different camera angles and perspectives.)

Date: 1946, July
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046546
Fire and a smoke cloud rises due to first Atomic Bomb explosion, known as the Trinity test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The first atomic bomb is detonated during Manhattan Project testing at Alamogordo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Atomic bomb explodes. Fire and a smoke cloud rises. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046553
A train passes through the K-25 Plant (Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation) area in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The K-25 Plant (Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation) area in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Buildings at the plant. Smoke rises from a train which passes through the area. The Power House (K-25). A police car drives past in the foreground. A board reads 'safety first always and more power to you'. A restricted area and other information written on a sign board.

Date: 1946, June
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046554
Workers at the Y-12 Electro Magnetic Plant of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The Y-12 Electro Magnetic Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A board reads 'Tennessee Eastman Corporation', ' Employment Office' and other information. Vehicles drive past on a road. Workers leave the plant after the day's work. People walk and are searched by a guard. The workers sit in a bus. Buses leave a parking area.

Date: 1946, June
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046555