Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950

President Harry S. Truman aboard the fishing boat "Big Wheel" in Key West, Florida. Left to Right around Mr. Truman: Stanley Woodward, General Robert Landry, President Harry S. Truman, William Bray, and Press Secretary Charles Ross.

Margaret Truman is seen taking a picture during a picnic lunch in garden at Little White House, Key West, Florida. Left to right: Donald Dawson, Stephen Spingarn, Charles Ross, William Hassett, Margaret Truman.

Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace, and Charles Ross, among others, posing for high school graduating class photo, Independence, Missouri, 1901. Back row: Henry Chiles; Elmer Twyman; William Lloyd Garrett; Harry Truman; Will Long; Myrtle Cronkhite; Laura Ford; Mary Anderson; Gertrude Dixon; Laura Kingsbury. Third row: Crawford Compton; Leura Walters; Katie Krey; Gertrude Reyner. Second row: Tasker P. Taylor; Louretta Meador; Minnie Carpenter; Grace Crandall; Mary Taylor; James T. Brown; Mary Chinn; Itaska Atkinson; Bertha Roberts; Bess Wallace.

President Harry S. Truman (second from left) stands with a group of unidentified people across from the junior high school in Independence, Missouri. Press Secretary Charles Ross (left, next to Truman) stands near the car.

President Harry S. Truman (center)chats informally with White House photographers and reporters on the grounds of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. The three in the background on the left are (left to right) Bill Gerecke, Charles Protz, and Harry Walsh. On the President's right is Jeff Brodhead. On Truman's left, with his back turned, is Press Secretary Charles Ross. In front of Ross, left to right, are Alfonso Muto, M.H. Posey, Harvey George, and an unidentified man. (See also 66-874.) From: Richard Bower.

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) attending an event celebrating his first trip to his hometown of Independence, Missouri since becoming President. The event took place at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Auditorium. Standing at the podium is Charles Ross, Truman's press secretary and also a native of Independence. Seated on the right is Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman.

President Truman and his party on the deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg during a cruise off the New England coast. From left to right: unidentified, John Snyder, Ted Marks, President Harry S. Truman, Matthew Connelly, Gen. Harry Vaughan, Charles Ross, and Clark Clifford (partially obscured).

President Harry S. Truman on the deck of the ship Lenore with others. They are en route to the Cornell-Navy Crew Races. Left to right: Clark Clifford, Harry S. Truman, Charles Ross, and John L. Sullivan. From: Captain Robert L. Dennison, U.S.N. A leather bound album of President Truman's visit to the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, May 28 to 30, 1948. These are the same photos as the album 66-1029 through 66-1054.

In the Presidential box at the Navy-Penn State football game. Front row, left to right: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal; Gwyneth (Mrs. Aubrey W.) Fitch; President Harry S. Truman; Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, Superintendent of the Naval Academy; and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Second Row. General Wallace Graham; R. D. Hetzel, President of Penn State; General Harry Vaughan; Captain James Foskett; and Press Secretary Charles Ross. From the album, Visit of President Truman to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross, shown as he gave reporters the details of the President's Executive Order invoking the Taft-Hartley Act in the soft coal dispute. The order came as a first step in getting a Federal court to order 400,000 striking coal miners back to work. The President appointed a board of inquiry to examine the dispute and report to him by next Monday. From: Beth Gore.