Luckman, Charles, 1909-1999

President Harry S. Truman (center) studies national food savings plan as he is surrounded by advisors at Citizens Food Committee meeting at White House today. Left to Right: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett; and Charles Luckman, Citizens Committee Chairman. From: Houston Post.

Head of the Citizen's Food Committee Charles Luckman (center) and Assistant to the President John R. Steelman (left) examine a map with James E. Colliflower (right), a member of the Governors' and Mayors' Food Committees. Charles Luckman and John Steelman spoke on a closed circuit television broadcast that originated at WTOP, Washington to 169 CBS stations.

President Harry S. Truman speaks at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Committee; President Truman; William Boyle, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

President Harry S. Truman at the podium, receiving applause during the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Committee; President Truman; William Boyle, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; First Lady Bess W. Truman.

Preparations for the first televised address at the White House, Sunday, October 5, 1947. President Harry S. Truman (left, behind lectern) urged viewers to save food for Europe. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, stands next to the president. A cameraman looks through a large television camera at right. From: Charles Ross Papers, 12x18 Metal Album.

President Harry S. Truman is receiving a report from the Committee on Civil Rights from Charles Wilson. Standing, from left to right: Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Mrs. Sadie T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs. M.E. Tilley, Channing H. Tobias, Charles Wilson, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman, and Francis P. Matthews.

Charles Luckman, Chairman of the President's Citizen's Food Committee, displays the new food saving poster at his first press conference at the White House. From: Beth Gore

President Truman reported to the nation tonight on the food situation, as did Charles Luckman, right, head of the Citizen's Food Committee. It marked the first time that television has entered the White House to televise a broadcast, as photographed here. From: Beth Gore

In line with President Truman's appeal to the public to save 100 million bushels of grain in the next nine months, the committee appointed by the President called on Americans to adopt a five-point food conservation program. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, is shown with many of the posters to be used in the conservation campaign. From: Beth Gore