O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972

Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, speaking from a podium in front of Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. Seated from left to right are Warm Springs Mayor Frank W. Allcorn and Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan. All others unidentified. O'Connor is speaking at a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony at Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

President Harry S. Truman (right) with Basil O'Connor, Chairman of the American Red Cross, during a radio broadcast on behalf of the Red Cross Fund Campaign.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and Basil O'Connor, chairman of the American Red Cross, giving a radio broadcast on behalf of the American Red Cross.

President Harry S. Truman (right) with Basil O'Connor, chairman of the American Red Cross, during a radio broadcast on behalf of the Red Cross Fund Campaign.

President Harry S. Truman (left) signs S. 591, the Red Cross Reorganization Bill, at his desk in the Oval Office as Basil O'Connor (center), Chairman of the American Red Cross, and Howard Bonham (right), American Red Cross public relations director, look on.

President Harry S. Truman (left) signs S. 591, the Red Cross Reorganization Bill, at his desk in the Oval Office as Basil O'Connor (center), Chairman of the American Red Cross, and Howard Bonham (right), American Red Cross public relations director, look on.

Left to right: Harry Jobes, Basil O'Connor, former President Harry S. Truman, Tom Evans, and Paul Butler at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

Dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. Pictured left to right in front row: unidentified, Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman and Basil O\'Connor at Podium, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. From: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. Pictured left to right in front row: unidentified, Independence Mayor Robert P. Weatherford, unidentified, Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman, Basil O'Connor, unidentified at podium. from: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) speaking with Basil O'Connor (right) at the construction site of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Unidentified men stand in the background.