MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S.

These newsreels document the death and funeral activities of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the subsequent beginning of President Harry S. Truman's administration. It includes FDR's remains brought by train from Warm Springs, Georgia to Washington, DC, where the casket lay in the East Room of the White House. It also includes FDR's funeral services in Hyde Park, New York. It shows Harry S. Truman's work as a US Senator and how he was chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate at the 1944 Democratic National Convention. There is coverage of Truman's arrival at the White House to begin as President, and the arrivals of military and government leaders to support his new administration. It concludes with an excerpt from President Truman's speech to a joint session of Congress on 16 April 1945.

These newsreels were produced by United News, an Office of War Information production. They are in the public domain. Please credit: Office of War Information. Harry S. Truman Library.

This film is part of the Motion Picture series at the Truman Library. Please see this link for the National Archives Catalog record: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595162. This is a duplicate of an item in the National Archives' motion picture branch, local identifier 208-UN-151.