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Anslinger, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1892-1975

Harry J. Anslinger was the Commissioner of Narcotics from 1946 to 1963.

President Truman Signs H.R. 6454, Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement Bill

President Harry S. Truman signs H.R. 6454, the Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement bill at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. The bill became Public Law 879 during the 80th Congress. Pictured left to right: Assistant Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Willard F. Kelly; unidentified; Director of the Bureau of Prisons James V. Bennett; unidentified (mostly obscured); unidentified; Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger; unidentified; Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Watson B.

Voice of America Interview of Harry Anslinger on Illegal Narcotics

Voice of America interview with Chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and delegate to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Harry Anslinger. The discussion concerns illegal drug traffic around the world, particularly opium in China and the differences in opium production before and after its adoption of communism. The interviewer is Robert L. Radine.

President Truman Signs H.R. 6454, Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement Bill

President Harry S. Truman signs H.R. 6454, the Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement bill at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. The bill became Public Law 879 during the 80th Congress. Pictured left to right: Assistant Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Willard F. Kelly; unidentified; Director of the Bureau of Prisons James V. Bennett; unidentified (mostly obscured); unidentified; Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger; unidentified; Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Watson B.

Presentation of United States Savings Bond Awards by the Secretary of the Treasury

Presentation of United States Savings Bond Awards by Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury in his office at the Treasury Building. Left to right: Gidney Cox, United States Savings Bond Division; Paul McDonald, Director of Administrative Services for the Department of the Treasury; John D. Erwin, Bureau of Narcotics; Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics; Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury; Bill McDonald, Director of Savings Bond Division; A.E. Weatherbee, Administrative Assistant Secretary; Robert W. Maxwell, Commissioner of Accounts; U.E.