Presidential campaign, 1952

This is a general view of the speaker's platform at Spokane, Washington, Armory as President Harry S. Truman addressed a whistlestop crowd. His daughter, Margaret, is seated to the rear of the President.

President Harry S. Truman meets with Native Americans on the rear platform of his train while on a Whistlestop tour in support of Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign. He smokes a peace pipe with Assiniboine Chief First to Fly (shown at right with horned ceremonial head gear) in Glasgow, Montana. Two years earlier, President Truman had been made "Chief Bear Soldier" by the Assiniboine (Hohe Nakota) people. The other two Native Americans are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman at the rostrum as he attacks Republicans during major address in Provo, Utah. In the background is part of an overflowing crowd of 12,000 which packed Brigham Young University Stadium to hear the President. From: Houston Post.

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.