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President Truman Receives Rock from Fort Corregidor

73-3715
Accession Number
73-3715
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
HST Keywords
Truman - Dignitaries - Foreign - Philippines; Truman - Gifts - Foreign
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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

President Harry S. Truman (facing camera, fourth from left) in the Oval Office, posing for photographers as he accepted as a gift from the people of the Philippines a rock from Corregidor. The Rock was presented by a delegation including the Ambassador from the Philippines to the United States, Joaquin Elizalde (facing camera, fifth from left); Colonel Harry Peck, a survivor of the Bataan Death march (second from left); and Major Manuel Acosta, a Filipino veteran who lost his arm (third from right). All others are unidentified.

Date(s)
July 10, 1951