“ THE GREATEST DRAMA “ TV SHOW PROFILE OF FINANCIER & STATESMAN BERNARD BARUCH XD43504

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white early-1950’s installment of the syndicated television series, “The Greatest Drama” offers a biography of American financier and statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965), best remembered as chairman of the War Industries Board during World War I, adviser to President Roosevelt during World War II, and post-war advocate for nuclear disarmament. The New York City Victory Parade of 1946. Title overlay: “The Greatest Drama” (0:08). Bernard Baruch, wearing a hearing aid in closeup. Title overlay: “The Trouble Shooter” (0:28). The mushroom-shaped explosion and condensation cloud or Wilson cloud of an atomic bomb explosion, during the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear weapon test conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, 1946 (0:34). The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Baruch serves as a delegate (1:04). Pages of a cal