In 1896, the Trumans moved to the Waldo Avenue neighborhood. Harry and the other boys organized a .22 rifle company that marched and counter-marched the "troops" and camped in the nearby woods.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of thirteen Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
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