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MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
TLS atomic bomb exploding.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
United States fighter planes on a runway. Planes taking off. Planes on aircraft carrier. Large plane taxis on runway.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Harry S. Truman speaking, "The real threat to our security isn't the danger of bankruptcy, it is the danger of Communist aggression. If Communism is allowed to absorb the free nations, one by one, then we would be isolated from our sources of supply and detached from our friends. Then we would have to take defense measures that might really bankrupt our economy and change our way of life so that we couldn t recognize it as American any longer. That s the very thing we are trying to keep from happening.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Secretary of State Dean Acheson wearing an overcoat.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Bridge. Arrow sign reads Kaesong .
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Cu of paper with MacArthur s negoiations with the Chinese.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
President Harry Truman at a parade. He shakes hands with a military officer.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
President Harry Truman sigining papers.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Newspaper headlines about Truman removing MacArthur.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Military officers shaking hands with a line of people at unknown event.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
April 11, 1951. Report to the American People on Korea and on U.S. Policy in the Far East. President Harry Truman, I have therefore considered it essential to relieve General MacArthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the real purpose and aim of our policy. It was with the deepest personal regret that I found myself compelled to take this action. General MacArthur is one of our greatest military commanders. But the cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Ticker tape parade for MacArthur in New York city. General Douglas MacArthur riding in a car in the parade.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Capitol dome, Washington DC.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
At a press conference, man (possibly a Congressman) speaking to camera, I believe that the President s action today in the removal of General MacArthur was a tradgic mistake. I m of the opinion it was caused by the President s failure to recognize the overall Communist aggression, that it is global and international.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
At a press conference, Republican Senator Kenneth Wherry speaking, This is tragic day for America we do not know where we are going in Korea we do not know where we are going in China. MacArthur knows and he's been fired.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Crowd with banner All For You MacArthur
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Reporter doing a man on the street interview, Do you agree with President Truman and what he did? Man, No.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
General Douglas MacArthur getting off plane. Crowds cheering.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
April 19, 1951. General Douglas MacArthur at podium on senate floor, "I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye."
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Crowd gathered celebrating. MS crowds cheering, cars passing, ticker tape fills the sky.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Senator Robert Taft.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
President Harry Truman in a parade, riding in an open car. This maybe the 1948 campaign. Thomas Dewey and his wife.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
President Harry Truman entering a building.
MacArthur's War - Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
General Douglas MacArthur walking into building for Senate hearing. MacArthur shakign hands with Senators.