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Former President Truman in Billiken Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois

Former President Harry S. Truman sits on the left, high on the back seat of a convertible waving to the crowd in the Bud Billiken Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois. John H. Sengstacke, publisher and editor of The Chicago Defender, is in the center. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley sits on the right. Mr. Truman was taking a break from the Democratic National Convention being held in Chicago at this time. The photo is autographed: Best Wishes, John H. Sengstacke, Billiken Day, 1956. During the Truman administration, Mr.

Former President Truman and others at the Press Club in Washington, D.C

Former President Harry S. Truman (2nd from left), John R. Cauley (left), and two others (unidentified) at a formal Press Club function in Washington, D.C. John R. Cauley (left) works for the Kansas City Star, Washington Bureau, and is acquainted with President Truman. The date, event, and location unknown. (See 79-8.) From: Janet Stephenson.

Foreign Language Press representatives with India Edwards

Representatives of the Foreign Language Press are shown at a press conference at the Advertising Club, New York City. Left to right (seated) are: Michel Cieplinski; Felix Paplowski of Polish Everybody's Daily; Mrs. Angela Parisi, Vice Chairman, New York Democratic State Committee; Mrs. India Edwards, Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee; Mrs. Anna Oberwager, German Press; Miss Maria Luisa Falbo, Il Progresso Italo-Americano; Mrs. Olga Hochstadter of Staats Zeitung und Herold; Miss Barbara Dauys of the Lithuanian Press; and Miss Mary Kizis of the Lithuanian Information Office.

Cyrus Eaton and Former President Harry S. Truman at a Press Conference

Former President Harry S. Truman (seated before fireplace, right) came to Cleveland, Ohio, to attend a fund-raising dinner for the library that is to hold the former President's official papers. He is shown at a press conference with his host, financier Cyrus Eaton (on Truman's right), in the Greenbriar Suite in the Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio. Others in the room are unidentified. (See 2005-84 and 85 and 70-952.) From: The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio