Princeton's bicentennial, 1947 (newsreel)

2009   13 years ago
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2009   13 years ago
www.princeton.edu … For more information or to comment on this video, visit the library's blog "The Reel Mudd.": http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/2010/07/past-present-and-future-us-presidents-at-bicentennial-celebration-1947.html … From the Princeton University Archives: This newsreel about Princeton's Bicentennial, part of a set of Paramount newsreels, includes footage of President Harry Truman, Albert Einstein, and Dwight Eisenhower, who received honorary degrees, as well as of guests Herbert Hoover and the widows of Grover Cleveland and of Woodrow Wilson. The newsreel includes a fragment of a speech by President Harry S. Truman, urging for the adoption of universal military training.
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