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Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

Truman family and Sir John Shaw at Waller Air Field, Trinidad

President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, and Margaret Truman with Sir John Shaw, Governor of the Crown Colony of Trinidad. President Truman is shaking hands with an unidentified military man. The family stopped in Trinidad on their way to an official visit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From left to right: Sir John Shaw, President Truman, Mrs. Truman, and Margaret Truman. Original is oversized.

Margaret Truman at the Launching of the USS Missouri

The Truman Family attends christening and launching ceremonies of the battleship USS Missouri from the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. Standing on the platform, from left to right: Jane Tunstall Lingo, Margaret Truman (holding a bottle of champagne), Senator Harry S. Truman, Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, and Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly. In front of the platform are Bess Truman (left) and Drucie Snyder (right).