Motion pictures, 1940-1949 - Library of Congress. Copyright Office

160. July 13, 1948. Democrats: delegates convene in Philadelphia [to nominate candidate for presidency. Senator Barkley makes keynote address]. Olympic teams are selected in track and swimming. [Trial meets held at Evanston, Ill. and Detroit].

161. July 15, 1948. Truman nominated; President calls for special session in acceptance speech at Philadelphia. [Barkley picked as running mate]. Racing thrills: cycle classic in Holland; [at Assen, thousands witness international motorcycle speed races]. Crashes mark "midget" debut [opening of Coliseum auto track at Los Angeles].

162. July 20, 1948. Hero's burial for General Pershing [at Arlington Cemetery, Va.]. Anti-Truman ticket named [Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright chosen by States' Rights convention in Birmingham]. Mediator [Count Bernadotte] returns to Zion [from New York]. World's largest blast [lifts top of mountain, in dam construction at Bristol, Va.]. "Dummy" scores touchdown [mechanical tackling dummy in football practice at Ventura, Calif.]. [All-Dixie Air Show at Chattanooga].

163. July 22, 1948. The world crisis. [Aerial shuttle to Berlin; Russia refuses to negotiate dispute with West]. B–29's arrive in England. General Clay here from Berlin [returns for conference in Washington]. Top U. S. Communists seized [arrest of William Foster and others in New York]. French mark Bastille Day [in Paris]. [General Lewis B.] Hershey explains new draft. Turks get U. S. submarines. Farmer Brown's "magic cell" [demonstrated at Middleboro, Mass.]. [Tiger kittens arrive at Bronx Zoo].

164. July 27, 1948. [General Lucius] Clay sees no war over Berlin. Progressives name [Henry] Wallace [in Philadelphia convention]. One-hundred-eighty-passenger plane [Lockheed Constitution] spans U. S. Refugees [from Latvia] flee Reds by sea [arrive in Boston]. Pope sees war-wounded kiddies [at Vatican]. Stars greet contest winner [Abbott and Costello meet Mrs. Bessie Lawrence at Los Angeles]. Aquatennial parade [in Minneapolis]. "Shooting stars" zoom [jet planes at Washington display].