Truman: American Experience

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Season 10

He was an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president.

He was a farmer, a businessman gone bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Facing some of the biggest crises of the century, Truman would end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, confront an expanding Soviet Union and wage war in Korea-all while his wife Bess refused to stay in the White House and play the role of First Lady.

AIR DATE 10/5/97

About Truman: American Experience

Of all the men who had held the office, he was the least prepared. As president, Harry Truman was responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II and finding America’s place in the international order at the start of the Cold War.

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