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Title: "MacARTHUR RELIEVED OF COMMAND!" superimposed over CU of US General Douglas MacArthur saluting / NIGHT EXT White House, entrance illuminated / MS hanging lamp in front of White House, light in window in background / MS two lighted windows of White House / VS White House Press Secretary Joseph Short reads statement from President Harry S. Truman to reporters gathered round / VS reporters leave Short on way out of press room / CU MacArthur salutes / MWS General J. Lawton Collins hands MacArthur United Nations flag in ceremony atop the Dai Ichi building in Japan / MS Truman in sworn into office by US Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone as US Attorney General Francis Biddle, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr., and First Lady Bess Truman look on / CU Truman with right hand raised / MS MacArthur, in heavy fur-collared coat next to General Matthew Ridgway / MS rear view MacArthur on hillside in Korea, looking out over battlefield / CU Ridgway speaks into microphone / MS Ridgway at mic, next to Greek interpreter / CU newspapers are stacked atop each other in growing pile, headlines about MacArthur's dismissal / EXT US Capitol bldg next to Supreme Court bldg / VS Rep. Joseph Martin (R-MA) sits at desk reading letter from MacArthur, newsreel cameramen in background / CU letter in Martin's hands, MacArthur's signature at bottom / MCU Pathe cameraman George Schmidt operates camera, actor Benny Alexander to his left / AERIAL views of Wake Island viewed thru airplane window / MWS Truman, followed by Gen. Harry Vaughan, deplanes & shakes hands with MacArthur on tarmac in photo op / MS Truman and MacArthur on tarmac, plane in background as flashbulbs go off / MS photographers snap pictures / MCU low angle Truman pins Medal of Merit on MacArthur / CU Distinguished Service Medal on MacArthur's uniform