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President Harry S. Truman Presents Medal of Honor

73-3617 (untitled)
Accession Number
73-3617
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Keywords
Cabinet officers
Governors
Korean War, 1950-1953
Legislators
Presidents
Soldiers
Medal of Honor
HST Keywords
Truman - Awards - Giving - Congressional Medal of Honor; Truman - Veterans [with]
People Pictured
Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Dodd, Carl H., 1925-1996
Kouma, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard), 1919-1993
Pittman, John A. (John Albert), 1928-1995
Clements, Earle C., 1896-1985
Rights

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Credit:
Abbie Rowe
National Park Service

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman stands with Korean War veterans after presenting each of them the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Oval Office at the White House. From left to right: Senator Earle Clements of Kentucky (partly obscured); Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska; Governor Lawrence Wetherby of Kentucky; First Lieutenant Carl Dodd, Kenvir, Kentucky; President Truman; Sergeant John A. Pittman, Carrolton, Mississippi; Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight, Nebraska; and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall. Others in the background are unidentified.
Date(s)
May 19, 1951