KSHB 41 reporter Abby Dodge covers consumer issues about personal budgeting and everyday spending. Email her story idea. As a veteran, senator and short-lived vice president, President Harry S. Truman ...
TIME TO LOOK BACK ON THE LEGACIES THE LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY LEAVE BEHIND. PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS CHANGED THE COURSE OF AMERICAN AND WORLD HISTORY. WE TOOK A TRIP TO INDEPENDENCE TO ...
On a hot August afternoon, a 62-year-old man, wearing his eyeglasses and dressed in green swimming trunks, hustled down the gangplank of a vessel riding at anchor near Cape Henlopen and plunged into ...
President Truman was never told about the Manhattan Project as vice president. It was only after President Roosevelt passed away and Truman was sworn in as president that he was informed of the ...
That was the preeminent statement applied to President Harry S. Truman, and accurately sums up his political and more general style while in the White House, and thereafter for the rest of his life.
I hope everyone had a pleasant Valentine’s Day, and that you enjoyed Presidents Day as well. Presidents Day got me thinking about, well, presidents, and just how many had visited the Hilltop City. It ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo — As guests come to visit one former president, they have an opportunity to honor another. The Truman library is remembering Jimmy Carter's time here in Missouri. A small memorial ...
Artist Tom Corbin stands in his Kansas City, Kansas, studios next to the sculpted head of President Harry S. Truman. The finished work was unveiled Thursday in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Artist Tom ...
Harry Truman said of the creation of the state of Israel, "We took Palestine in small doses. You can’t move 5 or 6 million people out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more and expect ...
December 26, 1972. After weeks of hospitalization, President Harry S. Truman dies at 88. President Truman and his wife, Bess, ...
A visit to The Little White House in Key West may seem a little like a visit home. At least it might be if you grew up in the Midwest. And spent a lot of time at your grandparents’ house. Especially ...
It’s well known that Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But what few Americans know is that President Harry Truman also took out Hamilton. Hamilton wasn’t laid low in a ...