W. Averell Harriman While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the left in a white coat standing among a group of children seated at tables. He may be visiting a children's hospital while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.