Shortly after Truman became president, the end of WWII, the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, and many other events that changed history.
Trying to learn something
They rode the train all over the country campaigning for his re-election.
Guess he wasn't expected to win the election
He wasn't very tall
Looking out into the courtyard
Bess and Harry Truman
After he left the presidency, he had no secret service, no pension, and no job. Instead, he created the library, and spent his time giving tours at the library. Now that would have been an awesome tour to have been on!
LOVE this quote!! It may have to be the Bradley family motto this year!
His office as he left it on the last day he was in it.
His oval office
Then we hit the road and didn't' plan to stop for a while. My cousin told us about a museum on Jesse James and if we passed it, we should stop. We decided we wouldn't go out of our way to see it, but if it was on the way, we would stop. Not long after driving, what did I see, the sign to exit for the museum, so we decided to check it out.
We took the tour of the house, but pictures of the inside weren't allowed. David does not know how to follow directions.
This
is Zerelda Elizabeth Cole James Simms Samuel, mother of Frank and Jesse
James. On a cold night in January of 1875, someone threw an incendiary
device through the window of the James family farmhouse. That device
exploded in the fireplace, killing Frank and Jesse's 7yr old half
brother. Mrs. Samuel would lose her arm as a result of the explosion.
Many folks believe that the "bomb" was thrown by Pinkerton Detectives
who sought to flush The James Boys out of the house. The Railroad
had hired Pinkerton to track down the brothers, who were believed to be
responsible for numerous train robberies. Feeling guilty for the death
of little Archie and his mother's injuries, the Railroad is said to
have given her a lifetime pass good on any train in the U.S. In 1911
Zerelda Samuel would die of a heart attack onboard a train in Oklahoma,
returning from visiting Frank and his wife Annie. Ironic isn't it, that
the Railroad would give free rides to the mother of the two most
infamous train robbers in history, and that she would die on one of
their trains?
We went through the town where John Wayne was from. We were too late to for the museum or a tour of his house.
Here are some pictures from outside that you were allowed to take.
At one time Jesse was buried here, but he was moved to the cemetery down the street.
Next stop..Iowa
Couldn't stop at the road sign, so this will have to do!
This little house at 224 South 2nd St, in Winterset, Iowa was once the
home of Clyde and Mary Morrison. Inside the home, in May of 1907 Mrs.
Morrison gave birth to a 13lb baby named Marion. Little Marion grew up
to be 6 feet 4 inches tall and earned an athletic scholarship to USC.
Marion would drop out of college after a broken collarbone was suffered
in a bodysurfing accident. As a favor to the USC coach, Marion was cast
as an extra in a Hollywood film directed by John Ford. Little Marion
Morrison would go on to be a top box office draw for nearly 3 decades,
winning an Oscar for the movie True Grit in 1969. In total he would
appear in over 170 films, most of them under the screen name, John Wayne
I also wanted to see some covered bridges. There were some on the way that were used in The Bridges of Madison County.
