Reporters and reporting

Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly (standing, second from right) and Press Secretary J. Leonard Reinsch (standing, right) at the first press conference given by President Harry S. Truman. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

President Harry S. Truman (left) holds a press conference, officially announcing the end of the war in Europe after Germany's unconditional surrender. Behind the President is: Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (standing), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Senator Kenneth McKellar, Administrative Assistant Eddie McKim, Press Secretary Stephen Early (standing), Jonathan Daniels, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (in black hat). All others are unidentified.

Vice President Harry S. Truman, second from the right, speaks with an unidentified group of reporters. Matthew Connelly is in the far left back corner. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 1.

President Harry S. Truman, far right, is holding a press conference, probably in the Oval Office of the White House. All other people are unidentified. This photo is from the album "Mr. President, His Family and Friends."

President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with an unidentified man while surrounded by members of the press. His presidential plane, the Independence, is in the background. All others are unidentified. President Truman is traveling to areas damaged by the flooding of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

President Harry S. Truman, on the right with his hands behind his back, talks with reporters. His presidential plane, the Independence, is in the background. All others are unidentified. President Truman is traveling to areas damaged by the flooding of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

President Harry S. Truman (seated center in dark shirt with white collar) is shown during a press conference in the north garden of the Little White House at Key West, Florida. This press conference took place during President Truman's ninth vacation visit to Key West. Standing directly behind Truman in the bamboo print shirt is Charles S. Murphy, Administrative Assistant to President Truman and later Special Counsel to the President. To the left of Murphy wearing a long sleeve print shirt is John Steelman, Truman's Assistant to the President. To the right of Murphy is Joseph Feeney.

Lowell Thomas, famous war correspondent and radio news man, poses with an unidentified war correspondent, probably at Camp Dealey. Camp Dealey was located on the island of Guam and was a recreation camp for submarine sailors between 1944 - 1945. Photograph is part of an album entitled "Submarine Pictures WWII."

Lowell Thomas (far right) and a group of unidentified men (at least one other wearing a war correspondent patch) appear to be entertaining the group, probably at Camp Dealey in Guam. The sign behind the men reads "Welcome Visiting Firemen!"