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President Harry S. Truman in 35th Division Reunion Parade in Kansas City

President Harry S. Truman waves to the crowd lining a street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, as he rides in an open-top limousine at the head of a long procession of 35th Division veterans, flanked by his old comrades of Battery "D", in a reunion parade. Carrying the Battery "D" flag is Frank Spina, Truman's barber and fellow soldier. From: Conrad Smith (from album that had belonged to Francis Yeager, Battery "D")

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.

Parade in Butte, Montana for Army Visit to Anaconda Copper Mine

A parade, which lasted over an hour and a half from the time the first float went by until the end, has, at intervals, girls and drum and bugle corps led by drum majorettes. This photo was made during a visit of Army officers and enlisted men from Washington, D. C., and Ft. Lewis led by Lt. Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh, Aide to the Under Secretary of War, to an Anaconda Copper Mining Company plant, Butte, Montana, on June 3 and 4, 1942.

Truman and Dutra in an automobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

President Harry S. Truman (back seat, left) and Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra (back seat, right) smile at the crowd from the back seat of an automobile as they parade down the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."