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Members of the press on hand to capture President Harry S. Truman voting in Independence, Missouri.

Several unidentified men, including a radio reporter, gathered in Independence, Missouri, President Harry S. Truman's hometown, on election eve.

Election scene.

President Truman announced today that Charles G. Ross, 39-year-old Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will become his Press Secretary on May 15. When Mr. Truman first took office, it was announced that J. Leonard Reinsch, Managing Director of three radio stations owned by James M. Cox, would act as secretary, but since then Mr. Cox has asked that Reinsch be allowed to return to his post with the stations because of the urgent need of his technical knowledge.

Sport shirts of assorted designs and colors highlight the press conference held by President Harry S. Truman (center) on the lawn of the "Little White House" during his 9th trip to Key West, Florida. Standing in the background are John Steelman (sixth from left), Charles Murphy (eighth from left), Joseph Feeney, William Hassett, Joseph Short, Robert Dennison, and Robert Landry (ninth from left to right). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) kids newsmen who chose to sit out his pre-breakfast walk at the Yorktown, Virginia Naval Mine Depot. This is a full-length distance view of all seven men.

Former President Harry S. Truman (back to camera) sits at his desk in his office at the Truman Library and visits with Cabell Phillips of the New York Times. The photograph is autographed as follows: "With great respect to my favorite President, Cabell Phillips, N.Y. Times - 5-5-59." From: Cobert Phillips

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.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) shows Harold M. Slater (right), of the St. Joseph News-Press, a picture and other artifacts stored at the partially constructed Truman Library. These items will be exhibited at the completed Harry S. Truman Library. From: Harold M. Slater, St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, Missouri