Truman, J. Vivian (John Vivian), 1886-1965

Harry S. Truman is greeted by a crowd at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon his first return to the area after becoming President. Those identified are, left to right, Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, J. Vivian Truman, brother of the President, and Margaret Truman, daughter of the President. Original photograph is oversized.

Left to right: Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, J. Vivian Truman, brother of the President, Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, and President Harry S. Truman, at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon Mr. Truman's first return home after becoming President. The airplane is the "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

Harry Truman and family members stand in his office at the Truman Library. Left to right: Unidentified man, Henrietta Truman (sister of Corbie Truman), unidentified woman, Vivian Truman, Luella Truman (Vivian's wife), Corbie Truman and his wife, Bess Truman, Harry Truman, Olive Truman, Mary Jane Truman, and Margaret and Louis Truman. Autograph (not original) says "To Mary Jane from Harry, best of everything, Harry S. Truman, 7/23/62" From: Copied from photos lent to the Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

Bela Kornitzer (left) interviews former President Harry S. Truman's brother, J. Vivian Truman (right). Mr. Kornitzer is gathering information about the President and his father for a book on fathers and presidents' sons. Donor: Ardis Hauckenberry.

Good photo of Vivian Truman posing by a haystack. Caption says "A good prop." One of a series of photos from Mary Jane Truman's Christmas Album, 1906. From: Copied from photos lent to the Harry S. Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

President Harry S. Truman waves to the crowd lining a street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, as he rides in an open-top limousine in a parade of 35th Division veterans meeting for an annual reunion at the Hotel President. Mr. Truman's brother, J. Vivian Truman, is on Truman's left in the back seat of the car. Others are unidentified. (See 2005-280.) From: Conrad Smith (from album that had belonged to Francis Yeager, Battery "D")

Taken at the office of former President Harry S. Truman at the Truman Library, the former President closes the sale of land in Grandview on the east side of 71 Highway and south of Blue Ridge Boulevard to the Triangle Investment Company. Left to right are: (seated) Mrs. Bess Truman, Harry S. Truman and Ben Weinberg; (standing) Harvey Burrus, Rufus Burrus, J. Vivian Truman, Dan Brenner, Leo Eisenberg, and David Horowitz. (See 2000-25.) From: Leo Eisenberg.

This picture was taken when Harry S. Truman (right) was 4 years old and his younger brother John Vivian Truman (left) was 2 years old.