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Former President Truman Meets with Meteorologists

2022-284
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2022-284
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Meteorologists visit Former President Harry S. Truman at his office in the Federal Reserve Building. Truman spoke at a conference about Severe Local Storms in Kansas City in April 1957 and was visited afterwards by delegates from the conference. Truman joined the American Meteorological Society. Pictured (L to R) are: Kenneth C. Spengler, Executive Secretary of the American Meteorological Society; Howard T. Orville, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control; Truman; Robert D. Fletcher, President of the American Meteorological Society and Chief Scientist of the Air Weather Service; and H. L. Jacobson, Chief Meteorologist of the Severe Local Storm Warning Center. Donor: by Dick Williams.

Date(s)
April 17, 1957