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Harry S. Truman with Jack Benny During a Visit to the Truman Library

98-597 (untitled)
Accession Number
98-597
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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HST Keywords
Truman - Banquets - Concerts - Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; Missouri - Cities - Kansas City - General File - Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; Truman - Library - Visitors - Individuals - Benny, Jack; Truman - Dignitaries - Entertainers - Benny, Jack; Benny, Jack
People Pictured
Benny, Jack, 1894-1974
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Vidor, Charles, 1900-1959
Brooks, Philip Coolidge, 1906-1977
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Credit:
E.M. Barnard

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

Former president Harry S. Truman (far right) hosts comedian Jack Benny (center) during a visit to the Truman Library. Movie director Charles Vidor stands directly behind Benny. Library director Dr. Philip C. Brooks shakes hands with an unidentified person. Others are unidentified. From a leather bound album of 29 photographs of the visit of Jack Benny to the Harry S. Truman Library, home, and his benefit performance with President Truman before the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra. Album prepared for Harry S. Truman with photographs by E.M. "Barney" Barnard, Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri.

Date(s)
March 22, 1958