Senatorial political cartoon on the Truman Committee by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
Political cartoon by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick entitled "Clearing the way toward victory" regarding the Senate's Truman Committee investigations. Published March 9, 1943.
Investigations
Senator Truman and Truman Committee after visiting the Ford Motor Company
Senator Harry S. Truman and members of the Truman Committee at the airport after visiting the Ford Motor Company. Names of the individuals are hand written below the photo: Left to right, Senator Joseph Ball; Hugh Fulton (counsel, partially obscured); Senator Prentiss M. Brown; Senator Harry S. Truman; Paul Brown (child); Senator Owen Brewster; Senator James Mead; Senator Mon Wallgren; Senator Harold Burton; and Senator Harley Kilgore. Donor: Sam Rushay, who loaned us the original photograph to copy.
Dean Acheson walks down the steps of the Senate Office Building
Secretary of State Dean Acheson walks down the steps of the Senate Office Building after the joint Senate Armed Services Foreign Relations Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal recessed for lunch.
Dean Acheson returned for the fourth day before the Senate Committee
Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned to the stand for the fourth day before the Senate Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal. See also 96-1120.
Dean Acheson makes appearance before the Senate MacArthur investigation
Secretary of State Dean Acheson makes his long-awaited appearance before the Senate MacArthur investigation to face the challenge of hostile Republicans to disclose a "hotter than a firecracker" State Department on Formosa.
Major General Edwin M. Watson
Major General Edwin M. Watson, President Roosevelt's Secretary and Military Aide, today disclosed before the House Committee investigating the FCC, that President Roosevelt had requested a "full and complete investigation" into asserted "pressure sale" of New York radio station WMCA by Donald Flamm to former Undersecretary of Commerce Edward J. Noble. Major General Watson said that complaints had come directly to the President that pressure had been brought to bear on Mr. Flamm, who sold the station in 1941 for $850,000.00, assertedly $400,000.00 below market value.
General Harry Vaughn Testifying at Senate Investigation
Presidential Military Aide, Major General Harry H. Vaughan, was the star witness today before the Senate Committee investigating so-called "five percenters." General Vaughan told the committee he had given assistance to business concerns only as a matter of "extending aid whenever that could properly be done." From: Beth Gore.
Seth W. Richardson, Chief Counsel of Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee
The Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee selected Seth W. Richardson, former Assistant Attorney General in the Hoover Administration, as its chief counsel. From: Beth Gore
Photo of Admiral Chester Nimitz and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman at a press conference where they announced that Captain Charles B. McVay III had been found guilty in the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis
A photo of Admiral Chester Nimitz (right), Chief of Naval Operations, at a press conference where he announced the Navy had found Captain Charles B. McVay III, skipper of the cruiser Indianapolis, guilty of failing to direct his ship to follow a zig-zag course prior to the time she was destroyed in the Philippines Sea on July 30, 1945. Shown with Nimitz is Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. From: Beth Gore.
Robert A. Lovett, Undersecretary of State, testifying before the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee
Robert A. Lovett, Undersecretary of State, but Assistant Secretary of War for Air in 1942, told the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee that the War and Navy Departments agreed to furnish necessary engines for the Kaiser-Hughes flying boats because they were requested to do so by War Production Board Chief Donald Nelson. This was the same reason given by Jesse Jones, former Reconstruction Finance Corporation head when he had testified. From: Beth Gore