Harry S. Truman Thirty-third President 1945-1953 http://www.loc.gov/shop/index.php?action=cCatalog.showItemImage&cid=33&scid=223&iid=1910

Harry S. Truman 1884-1972 http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs_pph/PresidentDetail.aspx?ID=33&imageID=23

First Lady Bess Truman http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/postwar/election/portrait.html

Bess Wallace Truman 1885-1982 http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/hstr/image/obj/besstrumanportrait_exb_HSTR467.html

James F. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice replaced Edward Stettinius, Jr. as Secretary of State July 3, 1945 http://www.byrnesscholars.org/perspectives/to%20jfb.htm

Secretary of State James F. Byrnes 1945-1947 http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/40823.htm

Lt. Harry Truman http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/02may/08.htm

Harry and Bess Truman on the day of their wedding—June 28, 1919. http://www.archives.gov/calendar/features/2004/02.html

Statue of Harry Truman in front of the Courthouse where he served as a judge before election to the US Senate http://freewebs.com/larry_hilde/Way%20Home%20Missouri.html

Harry and Bess Truman with daughter Margaret http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/hstr/bess1.html

1934 Harry Truman campaigning before his election to the US Senate in 1934 http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=1131

Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn 1941-1947 1949-1953 1955-1961 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrayburn.htm

1944 President Roosevelt and Harry Truman at the Democratic Convention http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/trumanpr.htm

Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. 1944-1945 http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/40824.htm

1945 Truman diary entry concerning Japan and the Atom Bomb http://www.paperlessarchives.com/truman.html

Harry S Truman taking the oath of office after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 12, 1945 http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/hstr/image/HSTL/presidency/HSTL_73-1916_img1.html

Harry Truman becomes president, Apr 12, 1945 http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_pictures/presidentshouse_truman-06.html

Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) and George S. Patton with Harry Truman in Berlin, Germany, 1945 http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/trumanpr.htm

1945 Atomic Bomb http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/AtomicEffects/AtomicEffects-Fwd.html

1945 Hiroshima http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/hiroshima4.htm

1945 Hiroshima http://www.answers.com/topic/hiroshima-aftermath-jpg

Supreme Court Justice Harold Hitz Burton 1945-1958 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hitz_Burton

1946 The Truman Doctrine and aid to Greece http://www.historycentral.com/Europe/TrumanDoctrine.html

Supreme Court Justice Fred M. Vinson as Chief 1946-1953 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kylawren/FAMvinson.html

President Harry S. Truman and General George C. Marshall. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/leaders/marshall/mplan_1

Senate Majority Leader Wallace H. White, Jr. R-ME 1947-1949 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000396

Secretary of State George Marshall 1947-1949 http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/resource/37marsha.htm

President Truman with George Marshall and Senator Arthur Vandenberg http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/look/torment/

Speaker of the House Joseph William Martin, Jr. 1947-1949 1953-1955 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000191

1948 President Truman Wipes Out Segregation in Armed Forces. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/truman.html

Truman signs the Marshall Plan http://poorwilliam.net/j-021604.html

1948 The Berlin Blockade http://www.dhm.de/sammlungen/bildarchiv/IV/schirner/zeit.html

1948 Strom Thurmond ran against Truman as a Dixiecrat http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-3605

1948 Truman elected. Presidential Candidate NY Governor Thomas E. Dewey had 189 votes vs 303 for Truman. Dewey's running mate was California Governor Earl Warren. Warren was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Eisenhower in 1953 http://www.kipnotes.com/Harry%20S%20Truman.htm

1948 Third party Presidential Candidate Strom Thurmond of S. Carolina received 39 Electoral College votes. http://www.thecolumnists.com/zinman/zinman21.html

President Truman and newly elected Vice President Alben W. Barkley former Senator from Kentucky Nov 5 1948 http://imglib.lbl.gov/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/index/96B05381.html

Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas D-IL 1949-1951 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=L000493

Secretary of State Dean Acheson 1949-1953 http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/40821.htm

Vice President Alben Barkley 1949-1953 http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Barkley.htm

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark 1949-1967 http://www.oyez.org/justices/tom_c_clark

Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton 1949-1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Minton

1951 President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/korea_howfartogo.htm

1951 General Matthew B. Ridgeway (left) replaced General MacArthur in Korea http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid=%7B1CA6D371-8C10-4C84-87DA-BCF7B3FD94D2%7D

Senate Majority Leader Ernest W. McFarland D-AZ 1951-1953. Arizona Governor 1955-1959 http://www.co.pinal.az.us/McFarland/large.asp?pic=018&dir=gov

1952 President-elect Eisenhower in Korea seven months before the armistice of July 1953 http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/legacyreport/military-legacy.htm

1963 Former President Harry Truman receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy http://www.medaloffreedom.com/HarryTrumanMedals.htm

With pens when President Johnson signed the Medicare Bill http://www.ssa.gov/history/medicarephotos.html

President Truman died in 1972 http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/73-913.jpg

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and grave site http://www.ltgov.mo.gov/kids/independence.htm