Women journalists

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) walking down the hallway of the Harry S. Truman Library with Library Director Dr. Philip C. Brooks (right) and reporter Sue Gentry.

Former President Harry S. Truman poses at the Missouri Pacific train station in Independence, Missouri with journalists from the Independence and Kansas City area. Standing, left to right: Bill Straeter, J. W. (Bud) Porter, former President Truman, Hurley K. Burgess (Railway Express Managers and friend of Mr. Truman), Sue Gentry, Wes Lyle, and Dick Corliss. Kneeling, Sammy Feeback and Randall Jessee. The occasion was a surprise birthday party for the former President given by local reporters and photographers as he and Mrs. Truman prepared to depart for New York and Washington, D. C.

Unidentified reporters and photographers attend a press conference held in garden of the Little White House in Key West, Florida, during President Harry S. Truman's ninth vacation visit. Standing in the background are Administrative Assistant to the President David Niles (far left, behind photographer), and Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (seventh from left).

Margaret Truman (left) speaks with a group of women reporters before her first concert before her father, President Harry S. Truman. All others are unidentified.

Lillian Brown (left) interviews John R. Steelman for a radio program.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace stands with two men and a woman outside the San Jose Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation Ordnance Plant in San Jose, California. From left to right: Dean Witter, District Chief, San Francisco Ordnance District; Joseph B. Cary, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation; Secretary Pace; unidentified woman reporter for the San Jose News.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace speaks to a woman reporter for the San Jose News during his visit to the San Jose Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation Ordnance Plant. From left to right: unidentified woman; Colonel Hans Jepson (partly obscured); Secretary Pace (back to camera); Brigadier General William Sexton; Lieutenant General Joseph Swing; James M. Hait, Vice President and Manager, San Jose Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation Ordnance Plant; Mr. Kane, Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary of the Army; and Dean Witter, District Chief, San Francisco Ordnance District.

Bess Truman (second from left), wearing an evening gown, chats with three unidentified women at the New York Newspaper Girls' party held at the Statler Hotel in New York City. From: Truman Home.

Democratic National Committee Vice-Chair India Edwards (far right) prior to a broadcasting of NBC's "Meet the Press." Left to right: journalist Doris Fleeson, journalist May Craig, Ms. Spivak, Ms. Montgomery, and "Meet the Press" moderator Martha Rountree.

First Lady Bess W. Truman attends a party given by journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. in honor of India Edwards, Executive Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic Party. From left to right: Margaret Truman, Esther Tufty, India Edwards, Eda Brannan, and Bess Truman.