A frustrated Truman
This page of a five-page diary entry was written by President Harry S. Truman on May 12, 1945. In this entry, the President vents his frustration with the Supreme...
Ambassador Roosevelt
This document, dated March 15, 1946, is President Harry Truman's appointment of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. Representative to the General Assembly of...
Bess Wallace Truman
Elizabeth “Bess” Virginia Wallace was born in 1885 to a prominent Independence, Missouri, family – owners of the Waggoner-Gates flour mill. She is about four...
Burial at Arlington National Cemetery
In 1950, the body of Sergeant First Class John Rice was brought back from Korea for burial. Rice’s wife had purchased a gravesite near her home, but when cemetery...
Dropping the first atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, a B-29 aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima was bombed by a single B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, which flew out of...
Korea, 1950
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. President Harry S. Truman returned to Washington, DC, from Independence, Missouri, and met with his advisors to...
Let's take it from the top, Mr. President
This 1959 photograph pictures President Harry Truman playing the piano, accompanied by comedian Jack Benny on his trademark violin.