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Marching Band in Key West

2013-3162
Accession Number
2013-3162
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348542358
Keywords
Marching bands
Parades
Presidential advisors
Presidential press secretaries
Presidential vacations
African American musicians
HST Keywords
Truman - Trips - Key West - 1948
People Pictured
Connelly, Matthew J., 1907-1976
Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950
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Description
As part of a joke played on Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (background, right, in suit and tie), an African-American marching band led Mr. Connelly and Press Secretary Charles Ross (partly obscured by trumpeter) into the gates of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. They were in Key West to join President Harry S. Truman on vacation. All others are unidentified.
Date(s)
November 15, 1948