Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests were ...

The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum marked what would have been the 33rd president’s 141st birthday on Thursday with a ceremony, community events, and free admission for visitors.

Email her story idea. As a veteran, senator and short-lived vice president, President Harry S. Truman was known for his wartime decisions and promise of support to nations fighting Soviet control.

AND WHY CARTER ADMIRED HARRY TRUMAN SO MUCH. REPORTER. SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1980. THE FINAL TIME PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER VISITED KANSAS CITY WHILE STILL IN OFFICE, HE WAS IN THE THROES OF A DIFFICULT ...

When President Harry S. Truman addressed the NAACP in June 1947, becoming the first United States president to address a civil rights organization, he said he believed the country had reached a ...

It was 10:30 in the evening on April 8, 1952, that President Harry S. Truman announced on national TV and radio that he had seized control of the U.S. steel industry. The nation was in the grips ...

Truman, one time $3 a-week "bottle duster" in a small-town Missouri drug store, was sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States, at 7:08 (E.W.T) tonight, succeeding Franklin Delano ...

THE TRUMAN LIBRARY. KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE HAS A LOOK AT HOW PEOPLE CELEBRATED PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S 141ST BIRTHDAY. MR. TRUMAN SAID IT WAS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT HE EVER RECEIVED. TRUMAN ...

“I think of the unpopularity that Harry Truman had to suffer.” During his trip to Kansas City, he laid flowers on President Truman’s grave. Clifton Truman Daniel, the grandson of ...