President reads message of surrender from the Japanese

Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States, reads the Japanese surrender message. Those pictured with him include: Julius Albert Krug, U.S. Secretary of the Interior and chief of the War Production Board; Leo Crowley, chief of the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; Major General Philip B. Fleming, head of the Federal Military Works Agency; William Hammatt Davis, U.S. Economic Stabilizer; John Wesley Snyder, U.S. Cabinet Secretary and Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion; James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Defense; Fred M. Vinson, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Tom C. Clark, U.S. Attorney General; Lewis B. Schwellenbach, U.S. Secretary of Labor; John B. Blandford, administrator of the National Housing Agency; Robert E. Hannegan, U.S. Postmaster General; Cordell Hull, former U.S. Secretary of State; James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State; and William D. Leahy, U.S. Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief.

Publication date: 1945-08-15

Size: 8.5 x 4.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: black and white

Language:

• English

Geography:

• United States
• Washington (D.C.)

Subject(s):

• Admirals--American--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950
• Blandford, John Bennett, 1897-1972
• Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
• Clark, Tom C. (Thomas Campbell), 1899-1977
• Crowley, Leo
• Davis, William H. (William Hammatt), 1879-1964
• Fleming, Philip B. (Philip Bracken), 1887-1955
• Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
• Generals--American--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950
• Government officials--American--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950
• Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949
• Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
• Krug, Julius A. (Julius Albert), 1907-1970
• Leahy, William D.
• Presidents--United States--1940-1950
• Reading--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950
• Schwellenbach, Lewis B. (Lewis Baxter), 1894-1948
• Snyder, John W. (John Wesley), 1895-1985
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953
• World War, 1939-1945--Peace--Washington (D.C.)
• World War, 1939-1945--Surrenders--Japanese

Genre(s):

• News photographs
• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Daily Tribune (August 15, 1945), p. 2

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Associated Press