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June 19, 2019

1948 Harry S. Truman June 17, 1948 8:35am Whistle Stop Speech Warrensburg Missouri History


Crowd at Warrensburg, Missouri Train Stop
Crowd at Warrensburg, Missouri Train Stop Holden Street

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dewey, Warrensburg, Missouri 1948
Septermber 18, 1952  An outbreak of polio at Warrensburg, Missouri caused the cancellation of a whistle-stop speech that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican Presidential nominee, planned to make on his way to St. Louis, (AP)

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