“The Messenger,” a 15-minute short set in Washington on Aug. 14, 1945, tells of 16-year-old messenger Thomas E. Jones, who was pulled over by police for making an illegal U-turn while carrying the cable of Japan’s World War II surrender to the White House. Jones’ detention delayed the news that changed history.
Pat Croce, billed as the film’s executive producer, said [filmmaker] Quentin Perkins told him in September that he had located Jones, now 76.
The closing credits show a man, in a hospital bed, who tells of meeting President Harry Truman. The film is dedicated to Jones’ memory. Croce said that it is implied that the storyteller is Jones.
Croce said Perkins told him that Jones had been filmed before his death.
But Jones is alive.
“I feel deceived,” Croce said. “I have pretty good street smarts, and I didn’t see this.”

Something tells me there’s a great motivational speech somewhere in here. I don’t know. It’s just a hunch.
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