Overview This collection is comprised of news releases issued by the Research Hospital and Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri following the final hospitalization of former President Harry S. Truman, and "fact sheets" issued by the Fifth Army Information Office after his death in December, 1972. The news releases provide a day-to-day log of President Truman's hospitalization. The fact sheets (which total 146) were distributed to the press corps providing biographical data and other background...

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This collection of papers of Virginia B. Docking, wife of Kansas Governor George Docking and mother of Kansas Governor Robert B. Docking, includes letters received by her from U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and their wives from 1955 to 1961. The collection also includes slides and an accompanying audio tape and script, presented March 11, 1978 by the Shawnee County Democratic Party at an event honoring Mrs. Docking.