Secret service

President Harry S. Truman (second from left), surrounded by Secret Service agents, talks to reporters during his daily constitutional in Independence, Missouri. The President has just returned from San Francisco where he attended a United Nations conference. (See 2002-304 and 2002-305.) From: Evelyn Friedlander.

Surrounded by the Secret Service, Britain's former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill (right at back of car) waves from the back of an open automobile to the crowd lining the streets of Fulton, Missouri. He is on his way to Westminster College where he and President Truman, left at back of car, are to receive honorary degrees this date. From: Hathon M. Fields, Independence, Missouri.

President Truman seated in the backseat of an automobile while Secret Service and others push the car out of a ditch after a close call on a mountain road in Brazil.

Photo from the back of President Truman and Secret Service escort walking in Independence, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman (left) talks with retiring Secret Service agent James E. Sloan, Jr. (right). Original caption: James E. Sloan, Jr., (Jimmy to his many newspaper friends), who while with the Secret Service guarded Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Harry Truman, said goodbye to the White House on this date, ending 32 years of duty. He is shown here with President Harry S. Truman in the Oval Office. From: Beth Gore

Secret Service, Inaugural detail, Treasury Department. Original photograph is in a photo album of inaugural events.

Diagram view of Blair House, scene of the attempt on President Truman's life. Floyd Boring, Secret Service Agent, shot and critically wounded Oscar Collazo and the latter fell at the foot of Blair House steps. Griselio Torresola, co-conspirator, was shot and killed, falling over a hedge beside the entrance to the Lee House (adjoining Blair House). Donald Birdzell, White House policeman, ran to the car tracks to draw the gunfire away from Blair House. Donor: Philadelphia Inquirer.

Escorted by Secret Servicemen, President Harry S. Truman and Douglas MacArthur ride in the back seat of an automobile as they leave the airstrip on Wake Island for a small building where they will hold a historic conference on Communist aggression in the Far East and restoration of peace in war-torn Korea. From: Gordon B. Cone.

The rear platform of the train carrying President Harry S. Truman on a Whistlestop tour is shown empty, at a stop in Sacramento, California, waiting for the President to emerge from the train to speak to the crowd gathered to greet him. The Secret Service agent is unidentified. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

President Harry S. Truman, speaking from the rear platform of a train, campaigning for Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. The campaign train is stopped in Thompsonville, Connecticut. Sign on the rear of the train read: "Vote for Stevenson and Sparkman." Secret Service men are highly visible on the tracks ahead of the train. Donor: Reid MacCluggage, The Hartford Courant.