Dr. C. Asapansa-Johnson, president of the Interdenominational Ministers Alliance, presents President Harry S. Truman with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Brotherhood Medal. The award was presented in Dorrance Brooks Square in Harlem. New York Mayor William O'Dwyer stands in the background between Truman and Asapansa-Johnson. Others are unidentified.
President Harry S. Truman receives the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Brotherhood Medal from Dr. C. Asapansa-Johnson, president of the Interdenominational Ministers Alliance. The award was presented in Dorrance Brooks Square in Harlem, New York. [From: New York Herald Tribune]
From the rear platform of his campaign train, President Harry S. Truman holds out a paddle with the inscription, "For Use On Republicans Only!" The paddle was a gift for the president during his campaign stop in Akron, Ohio.
President Harry S. Truman signs H.R. 6454, the Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement bill at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. The bill became Public Law 879 during the 80th Congress. Pictured left to right: Assistant Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Willard F. Kelly; unidentified; Director of the Bureau of Prisons James V. Bennett; unidentified (mostly obscured); unidentified; Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger; unidentified; Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Watson B.
First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and President Harry S. Truman smile from the rear platform of a train in Independence, Missouri. After voting in the mid-term election earlier that morning, the Trumans were leaving on a Baltimore & Ohio train from Independence to Washington, D.C.
Sam Myres, noted saddle manufacturer, gives President Harry S. Truman a pair of silver spurs in El Paso, Texas, during his campaign visit there. [National Archives number 306-PS-50-10054]
President Harry S. Truman appears in an open-top limousine during a motorcade in Taunton, Massachusetts. Riding with him in the car are Massachusetts Governor Paul Dever, and Congressman John F. Kennedy. Truman was in Massachusetts to campaign for Adlai Stevenson for president.
President Harry S. Truman speaks at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization signing ceremony in the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Seated in a semi-circle behind him are the foreign ministers of all the NATO signatory nations, front row, left to right: Ernest Bevin, United Kingdom; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Bjarni Benediktsson, Iceland; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium; Dean Acheson, United States; Lester Pearson, Canada; Robert Schuman, France; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Dirk U.
President Truman stands at the lectern as others applaud, during a dinner at the Carlton Hotel honoring George Marshall on the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan. Left to right: President Harry S. Truman, Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Morgenstierne, General George Marshall, and Belgian Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys. Photo 306-PS-49-8749.
Sound recording, apparently taped off-the-air, of music interrupted by news coverage of Harry S. Truman's funeral from Independence, MO. Most of the recording is music, but at about 27:15 of side one, radio DJ Army Specialist Bob Meyer interrupts the music to bring the Group W news feed of former president Harry S. Truman's funeral services at the Harry S. Truman Library. On this day, the casket was being unloaded from the hearse and moved into the Library lobby for viewing. President Nixon and former president Johnson were scheduled to appear later in the day.