Cold War

Secretary of State Dean Acheson speaking from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Courier. The Courier is a floating radio transmitter, used to broadcast messages over the Voice of America.

President Harry S. Truman speaking from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Courier, a floating radio transmitter used by the Voice of America. President Truman's speech regarding the Soviet Union and Communism was broadcast over the Voice of America and translated into 45 different languages.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (front row, left) and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (front row, right) attending a speech given by President Harry S. Truman from the Coast Guard cutter Courier. President Truman gave a speech transmitted over the Voice of America and directed to countries behind the Iron Curtain. All others are unidentified.

Members of the Coast Guard with the cutter Courier, a floating radio transmitter used to air messages from the Voice of America. President Harry S. Truman gave a speech that was transmitted in part through the Courier.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signing the Mundt-Smith bill, which provided additional funding for the Voice of American radio network. Standing behind President Truman are, from left to right: Senator H. Alexander Smith; Walter Lemon, World Wide Broadcasting Foundation; Howland Sargeant, Inter-departmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, State Department; Congressman Karl E. Mundt; and Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. Same as 68-1290.

From left to right, Governor Phil Donnelly, Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman, and Dr. Franc L. McCluer at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Credit: Terry Savage.

From left to right: President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William D. Leahy, Captain Clark Clifford, Major General Harry Vaughan, and Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri the day Churchill gave the "Iron Curtain" speech. From left to right: Winston Churchill, William Leahy (behind Churchill), Clark Clifford, Harry Vaughan, and President Truman. Credit: Terry Savage.

President Harry S. Truman, Governor Phil Donnelly(behind President Truman and Mr. Churchill), Winston Churchill, and Dr. Franc L. McCluer (in foreground) at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in car in parade in Jefferson City, Missouri. It was on this day that Churchill made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton. Secret Service men are on the running boards of the car.