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1944 Nov 29 |
Mary Forni (1915-2006) reported 2 unusual men on the side of a rural road near Bar Harbor, Maine. They turned out to be Erich Gimpel, a German spy, and William Colepaugh, an American defector, who had slipped ashore as spies from a German U-boat. Both men were later captured, tried and sentenced to death. Pres. Truman later pardoned them. Links: USA, Germany, Maine, Espionage, TrumanH 
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1945 Aug 2 |
President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference. Links: Britain, USA, USSR, TrumanH
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1946 Jul 25 |
In Monroe, Georgia, 2 black couples were killed by Ku Klux Klansmen near Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County. Roger Malcom had just been given bail after stabbing a white farmer 11 days earlier. Pres. Truman ordered an FBI investigation and 55 suspects were named in the lynching of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, but no one was ever charged. Dorothy Malcom was pregnant. In 2019 a US appeals court considered whether federal judges can order the unsealing of grand jury records in cases with historical significance. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Black History, FBI, TrumanH
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1946 |
President Harry Truman presented James Rives Childs (1893-1987), a native of Lynchburg, Va., with the Medal of Freedom. Childs had served in the US Army as a code breaker in France during World War I. During World War II, as charge d'affaires for the American Legation in Tangier, Morocco, he helped 1,200 Hungarian Jews obtain visas to Spanish Morocco. Links: USA, Virginia, Jews, TrumanH
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1947 Jul 26 |
President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, FBI, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The act forbade the CIA from operating within the US. The CIA was transformed from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), founded by Gen. William Donovan (1941), and was led by Adm. Walter Chilcott Ford (d.1999 at 96) until 1949. Links: USA, FBI, CIA, TrumanH
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1947 |
Pres. Truman raised margin requirements of futures to 33% as wartime controls ended and food prices soared. Links: USA, Food, TrumanH
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1948 Jun 25 |
Pres. Harry Truman signed the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. It was primarily inspired by anti-Communism and led to a relaxation of US immigration policy. Following WWII the US took in more than 650,000 displaced Europeans. Links: USA, TrumanH, Migrant
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1949 Aug 3 |
The US Congress approved the celebration of Flag Day. Presidents had tried since 1916 to establish a national observance to show respect for the flag. It was President Truman who signed it into law, finally, establishing June 14th as Flag Day. Links: USA, TrumanH
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1949 Oct 13 |
India’s PM Nehru, on his first visit to America, met with Pres. Truman and addressed the US House and Senate in two identical speeches. Links: USA, India, TrumanH
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1950 Nov 1 |
Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the pair Griselio Torresola, was shot dead. On July 24, 1952, Truman commuted Collazo’s death sentence to life imprisonment, on the same day he signed an act enlarging the self-government of Puerto Rico. In 2005 Stephen Hunter authored “American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman.” Links: Puerto Rico, TrumanH
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1950 |
Rules for discharging US homosexual service members were established in the Uniform Code of Military Service and signed by Pres. Harry Truman. Links: USA, Gays, TrumanH
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1952 |
The US National Security Agency (NSA) was created in a secret executive order by Pres. Harry Truman to intercept electronic communications through eavesdropping. 16 years later its power to eavesdrop on foreigners was established in public law. In 2008 an edited history of the NSA by Thomas R. Johnson, begun in 1992 and completed in 1998, was made public. Links: USA, Telecom, Espionage, TrumanH
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1972 Dec 26 |
The 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Mo. In 1995 Robert H. Ferrell published the biography "Harry S. Truman: A Life." In 1999 Ferrell published "Truman and Pendergrast." Links: USA, Missouri, Biography, TrumanH
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1979 Sep 10 |
Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman were granted clemency by President Carter. Links: USA, Puerto Rico, CarterJ, TrumanH
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1982 Oct 18 |
Former first lady Bess Truman (97) died at her home in Independence, Mo. Links: USA, Missouri, TrumanH
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2008 Jan 29 |
Margaret Truman Daniel (b.1924), the only daughter of former Pres. Harry Truman, died in Chicago. From 1980 to 1996 Daniel wrote 13 murder mysteries beginning with “Murder in the White House,” which became a best seller. Links: USA, Writer, TrumanH
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