President Harry S. Truman (center) holds a pair of scissors after participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Washington Rehabilitation Center in Seattle, Washington. General Wallace Graham in on the right. Governor Mon Wallgren is second from the right. All others are unidentified.
A crowd gathers to greet President Harry S. Truman (standing near doorway) during his visit to the Washington Rehabilitation Center.
Warner Pathe Newsreel showing Bess Truman visiting Washington DC's Children’s Hospital for the first time since becoming First Lady in 1945. She visits children being treated for infantile paralysis (polio) and is shown the latest treatment methods. It concludes with the narrator saying that many of these children will walk again because of contributions to the March of Dimes.
White House Police Force members Private Joseph Downs, left, and Private Donald Birdzell, right, are shown seated in wheelchairs while recovering in a Washington, D.C. hospital. They were wounded protecting President Harry S. Truman from an assassination attempt while he was staying at Blair House. Joseph Downs was hit in the chest, abdomen, and thigh; Donald Birdzell was shot in both legs.
Richard Beckman (left) and Frank Cannon pose outside of the Villequier Hospital in Villequier, France. They were United States Army Criminal Investigation Detachment Agents during World War II.