Harry Truman visits his proud mother, Martha Ellen Young Truman, on her front porch, Grandview, Missouri, summer 1944: #Wilkes
As ex-President, Harry Truman sold family farmland in Grandview, Mo., which became late 1950s Truman Corners Shopping Center:
Truman’s old family farmland in Grandview, Mo., is now site of “Truman’s Marketplace,” including a liquor store called Harry’s Liquor:
Young Harry Truman at the plow:
Ex-President Truman got LBJ to visit and endorse his Truman Corners shopping center in Grandview, Mo.:

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8 May
American Seventh Army soldiers cheer Allied victory atop platform where Hitler used to orate in Nuremberg, today 1945: #Abrahams
Old site of Hitler’s rallies at Nuremberg, as it looks, in deteriorated condition, today:
Seven years before VE-Day, Nazi rally in Nuremberg, 1938: #Jaeger
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Alf Landon is available for weddings, birthday parties and car wash openings to tell you how he really won the election of 1936 against FDR.
I won the ’36 election against FDR. By a lot. They’re finding new lost ballots in New York State all the time. It was fraud. A rigged election, and everybody knows it.
Opening acts for the former President at his early-bird-dinner performance tonight should be Joey Heatherton, Tiny Tim and Charo.
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“It’s About Time” (1966) lasted only one season but had a catchy theme song:

"Will they ever get away? Watch each week and see! Will they be returning to — the twentieth century?"
Later in its only season (1966), “It’s About Time” followed cave people transported through time to modern Los Angeles:
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American paratrooper drinks Hitler’s cognac on patio of his Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, spring 1945: #NARA
In Leipzig, when American soldiers arrive, high-ranking Nazi general has chosen to depart this life next to his beloved photograph of Hitler, this week 1945:
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21 Apr
Library in Hartford, Connecticut, house of Mark Twain, who died today 1910:
Mark Twain might have felt at home in the upstairs Treaty Room at the White House. as restored by Jacqueline Kennedy, 1962: #JFKL
This is what the Treaty Room at the White House looked like under Eisenhower, before Jacqueline Kennedy transformed it: #JFKL
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Lorraine Motel, night of April 4, 1968: #Groskinsky
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where MLK was assassinated, was named in 1945 for “Sweet Lorraine,” popularized by Nat King Cole, who stayed there, as did other Black stars such as Sarah Vaughn, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong:
Dr. King's still-open briefcase, photographed in his room at Lorraine Motel, Memphis, just after his assassination, tomorrow night 1968: #Groskinsky
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