Press interviews

Margaret Truman talks with reporters on the train during a campaign trip to the West. This is from a series of photographs of President Truman's western trip.

Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Employment Security, is shown standing on the far right. This scene is identified as a press interview which took place in Jackson, Mississippi. According to Goodwin's appointment book, he was in Jackson on September 6 - 7 and stayed at the Heidelberg Hotel and this may be the location of the press event. Others in view are not identified.

The rock garden at the Seignory Club (golf), Monte-Bello, Ontario, Canada, where President Harry S. Truman held a special news conference on the last leg of his three-day trip to Canada. (See also 65-581 thru 606.) From: Bjorn Bjornson.

Former President Harry S. Truman talked to newsmen in his hotel suite offering information on how he keeps a trim figure despite his 71 years. "It's very simple, just push away from the table, like this." Mr. Truman was in Chicago to address the Executives' Club. Donor: Hennepin County Historical Society