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President Truman Announces Japanese Surrender

2013-2506
Accession Number
2013-2506
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348542244
Related Collection
Odum, Reathel Papers
Keywords
Armistices
Autographs
Cabinet officers
First ladies
Presidential advisors
Presidents
Press
Press conferences
Reporters and reporting
White House staff
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Japanese Surrender; Truman - Conferences - Press - 1945
People Pictured
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
Odum, Reathel M.
Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973
Snyder, John W. (John Wesley), 1895-1985
Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Kerr, Vivianne Lovell, 1918-2004
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Description

President Harry S. Truman (standing at desk) announces the surrender of Japan to reporters assembled in the Oval Office. Seated on couch, left to right: Reathel Odum; First Lady Bess W. Truman; Samuel Rosenman, Special Counsel; and John W. Snyder, Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Also pictured: Secretary of State James Byrnes (behind President Truman, right). Journalist Vivianne Lovell of Agence France-Presse stands in the striped dress in the front row, center of the reporters. Signed by President Truman and John Snyder.

Date(s)
August 14, 1945