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Left to right: Truman Library director Dr. Benedict K. Zobrist, Ruth Henning, television producer Paul Henning, actor Buddy Ebsen, and Truman Library curator Milton Perry stand in front of portraits of Harry S. Truman by Missouri artist George L. "Shag" Shultz. The Hennings presented the Shultz artwork to the Truman Library. Paul Henning, who was born in Independence, produced the show "Beverly Hillbillies," which starred Ebsen as Jed Clampett.

Former President Harry S. Truman (3rd from left) aims a prop gun at a photographer after a performance of "Destry Rides Again" at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. With the president are members of the cast: Scott Brady (left), Dolores Gray (2nd from left), and Andy Griffith (right). From: Houston Post

Former President Harry S. Truman (left), shakes hands with Thomas E. Dewey (right) when they met backstage at the Lyceum Theater. They were in the audience for the play "Nobody Loves an Albatross" and were invited to meet the cast. With them is actor Robert Preston, star of the show. From: Houston Post.

Movie stars and the Truman family participate in Roosevelt Birthday Ball activities at the White House. Left to Right: (back row) Jo Stafford, Eleanor Lambert, Angela Lansbury, Helen Sioussat, Eddie Bracken, Paul Henreid, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Cesar Romero, and Lucy Monroe. Left to Right: (front row): Van Johnson, Ilene Woods, Diana Lynn, Margaret Truman, Margaret O'Brien, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Constance Moore.

President Harry S. Truman delivers a campaign speech at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Seated in background L to R: Bess Wallace Truman, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart (partially obscured), unidentified, Lauren Bacall, George Jessel (with cigar).

Ken Curtis (left) and Milburn Stone (center), "Festus" and "Doc" of "Gunsmoke", visit with former President Harry S. Truman (right) at the Harry S. Truman Library.

L to R: Barbara Rush, Carl Reiner, Henry Fonda, Jackie Cooper, Tippi Hedren (seated), unidentified woman, Eddie Fisher standing outside the Truman home.

Amanda Blake (left) and Milburn Stone (right), "Miss Kitty" and "Doc" of the television show "Gunsmoke" visit with former President Harry S. Truman at the Truman Library.

Actor Godfrey Tearle (seated, portraying President Franklin D. Roosevelt) greets actor Jonathan Hale (portraying Dr. Vannevar Bush.) This is a production still from the movie "The Beginning or the End", about the development of the atomic bomb and its use on Hiroshima.