Presidential campaign, 1952

President Harry S. Truman speaks from the back of his special train today in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He is denouncing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican candidate for President, and John Foster Dulles, GOP Foreign Policy Advisor, accusing them of talking loosely about rolling back the iron curtain to liberate the enslaved peoples of Eastern Europe. This, the President said, increases the risk of atomic war with Russia. With the President (center) on the platform are: Sen. Harley M. Kilgore and Rep. M.G. Burnside, Democrats from West Virginia. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman relaxes and reads a newspaper as his special train carries him into the Midwest to open a two week campaign trip for the Democratic National ticket. His first talk of the trip was made at Fargo, North Dakota today. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman got in his early morning walk today. He walks briskly along the Pennsylvania Railroad Station platform while his "whistlestop" special train is being serviced. Although the air was chilly, the President didn't bother with a topcoat. He is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Truman pins a Stevenson-Sparkman campaign button on the lapel of President Harry S. Truman. Someone in the crowd had handed it to her. The whistlestop tour stopped in Ft. Wayne, Indiana for the President to speak for the Democratic Party.

Police estimated the crowd to be approximately 12,000-15,000 as President Harry S. Truman's train stopped at the station in Wooster, Ohio. The train stopped so the President could disembark and attend church at Bethany Baptist Church. The President spoke briefly from the platform. This photo is the same as 69-285, but of better quality. From: Houston Post. From: Houston Post.

The First Family waves from the back of the President's train. First Lady Bess Truman will not be making the trip, but is there to see the President and Margaret Truman off. They are going on a whistlestop campaign that will involve twenty two states in fifteen days. From left to right: First Lady Bess Truman, President Harry S. Truman, and daughter Margaret Truman. Same as 68-1489, but better print. Donor: Houston Post.

A small boy listens intently from his railroad track perch as President Harry S. Truman makes a whistle stop speech from the platform of his special train. They are in Devils Lake, North Dakota.

President Harry S. Truman (back to camera, right) is honored at the United States Naval Base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire by Marine Guards. All others are unidentified. President Truman stopped in Portsmouth during his 1952 presidential campaign trip for Democratic candidates Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman.

President Harry S. Truman (center), Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (left), and Margaret Truman (right) greet the crowds on the back of a campaign train as stopped in Clinton, Massachusetts. President Truman stopped in Clinton to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman for President. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, volume 8.

Matthew Connelly, President Harry S. Truman's Appointment Secretary, reaches down into the crowd to shake hands with people from the back of the campaign train in Clinton, Massachusetts. He accompanied President Truman during his campaign stops for Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman. All others are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, volume 8.