Lawyers

Portrait of Eleanor Bontecou used in her oral history interview. Donor: Ms. Bontecou.

Truman Senate defense investigating committee holds preliminary session immediately after arrival in Kansas City, Missouri, preparatory to open inquiry about fuel supply situation in the Midwest. Standing, left to right: Senator Harley Kilgore, Senator James Meade, general counsel Hugh S. Fulton. Seated, left to right: Mayor of Kansas City John B. Gage, Senator Carl Hatch, Senator Harry S. Truman, Senator Mon C. Wallgren, and Senator Harold Burton.

Harry S. Truman is shown in 1942 at a session of the United State Senate's special committee to investigate the national defense program, of which he was chairman. Pictured from left to right at the counsel table are James M. Mead, Senator from New York; Charles Patrick Clark, associate Chief Counsel; Senator Truman; and Owen Brewster, Senator from Maine.

Davidson Sommers, Air Corps officer assigned to office of Assistant Secretary for Air, 1942-44, and to Assistant Secretary of War, 1944-46; Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1946; Attorney in legal department, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), of the World Bank, 1949-59.

Richard Farrington, Attorney; Democratic County Committeeman and officer, Greene County, Missouri; member of Democratic State Committee, 1954-58; acquaintance of Harry S. Truman.

Oscar R. Ewing, Attorney, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York, New York, and predecessor firms, 1919-1947; Assistant Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-42; Vice Chairman, 1942-47; Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1942 and again in 1947; Acting Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1946; Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, 1947-53; and organizer and member of an unofficial political policy group during the Truman administration, 1947-52.

This is a portrait of Theodore Tannenwald, Counsel to the Special Assistant to the President, 1950-51.

Defense attorney Joseph Collins Howard, who represented Heitaro Kimura at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, stands at a lectern in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

Defense attorney James Freeman stands at the lectern at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He represented Kenryo Sato at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Freeman

John Brannon, defense counsel, stands at the lectern of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He is reading his summation on behalf of Admiral Shigetaro Shimada. Shimada was one of twenty-five alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial.