The spotlight did not appeal to Bess Truman. "She would return home to Independence as often as possible, leaving the President feeling very alone, often desolate," says historian David McCullough.

She also paid her respects at the gravesite of President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman. After she leaves the library, she'll be in Kansas City into the evening at a private political ...

In their letters to their wife, Bess, Truman describes his first night under fire in harrowing terms; he was frightened, as were his men. But he rallied, pulled himself together and got his men ...

Which first lady flew a plane with Amelia Earhart ... Although her husband traveled far and wide, Mrs. Harry S. Truman was often homesick for her native state of Missouri. In fact, she claimed ...

Bess Truman Primary Center is a public school located in Webb City, MO, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Bess Truman Primary Center is 177 and the school serves K-1 ...

The First Presbyterian Church is where a six year-old Harry Truman first met five year-old Bess Wallace while attending Sunday School not long after his family moved to Independence from Lamar ...

After a late night entertaining governors with President Joe Biden at a black-tie dinner on Saturday, the first lady was heading ... just above their dugout. Bess Truman joined President Harry ...

which could be represented as abbreviating her father's first name or her father-in-law's seldom-used middle name.(*) John Truman apparently ... tickler," he wrote to Bess Wallace in 1911 ...

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First Lady Biden will arrive at the library and ... Chrisman is Harry and Bess Truman’s high school alma mater (it was then known as Independence High School). They were in the Class of 1901.