Campaign trips

First Lady Bess Truman (center), standing next to President Harry S. Truman (left), waves to the crowd from the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign Whistlestop in Broken Bow, Nebraska. On her left is a local resident, Jim Kelly. From: Mrs. Ed Pelanowski.

A crowd of supporters looks toward a train (not visible) where President Harry S. Truman is giving a campaign speech at a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky. From: James F. Rourke.

A crowd of spectators look toward a train (not visible) where President Harry S. Truman is giving a campaign speech during a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky. From: James F. Rourke.

From the back of a train, President Harry S. Truman delivers a campaign speech to a crowd of people gathered to hear him at a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman delivers a campaign speech from the back of a train to a crowd of supporters gathered to hear him at a whistlestop in Lexington, Missouri. From: James F. Rourke.

A view of a large crowd of supporters gathered to hear President Harry S. Truman give a campaign speech. The President can be seen in the distance on the rear platform of a train making a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman (right) chats with an unidentified young man on the back of a train making a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.

Senator Virgil Chapman (center), Democrat, Kentucky, points out something of interest to President Harry S. Truman (left) as they view the crowd from the back of a train at a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President is to make a campaign speech. Tom Underwood, Editor of The Lexington Leader, is on the right. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman converses with Tom Mooney (left), Mayor, Lexington, Kentucky; Senator Virgil Chapman (2nd from right), Democrat, Kentucky; and Tom Underwood (right), editor, Lexington Herald, on the back of a train making a campaign whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.

A small plane waits at Pryor Field for former President Harry S. Truman to board after his visit to Decatur, Alabama, where he made a major address before a crowd of 10,000 plus at a political rally for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. From: J.F. Rowden, Traffic Superintendent, Chemstrand Company, Decatur, Alabama 35602