W. Averell Harriman While Touring the Soviet Union in 1959
View of W. Averell Harriman on the left surrounded by unidentified men. Image taken while he was touring in the Soviet Union, exact location not given. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.