General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. TECRETARY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, FORRESTAL LEAVING NAVY DEPT

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. TECRETARY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, FORRESTAL LEAVING NAVY DEPT

1947

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1) CU Boatswain blowing whistle.2) CU Boatswain standing behind side boys blowing boatswain whistle3) MLS Looking toward entrance of Navy Dept. Side boys salute as Sec"y Forrestal and Sec"y Sullivan leave Navy Dept.4) CU Secy. Forrestal in car. (UX)5) LS Car pulls away from Navy Dept. and proceeds down Cobstitution AvenueQUALITY: FAIR TO GOOD

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

Sullivan, John L. (John Lawrence), 1899-1982

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John L. Sullivan was born on June 16, 1899 in Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1918 he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, in 1921 he received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and in 1924 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. In 1929 he was elected Solicitor, Hillsborough County, Maine, and in 1937 he served as Commander of the New Hampshire Department of the American Legion. In 1939, Sullivan was named Assistant to the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and from 1940 to 1944 he served as ...