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Opening Session of the Potsdam Conference

64-575
Accession Number
64-575
5x7 inches (13x18 cm)
Black & White

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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
The Opening Session of the Potsdam Conference poses for photographers. President Harry S. Truman is near the center at the back end of the table, wearing a bow tie. Clockwise around the table, starting at President Truman: Charles Bohlen; two unidentified men; British foreign minister Anthony Eden; Prime Minister Winston Churchill; unidentified British military officer; Clement Attlee; unidentified man; Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Joseph Stalin; two unidentified men; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State James Byrnes. Also present are Edwin Pauley (behind Byrnes, partly obscured); Captain James K. Vardaman (behind Bohlen, partly obscured); Major General Harry Vaughan (standing behind Vardaman); and Averell Harriman (seated on Vardaman's left). All others are unidentified.
Date(s)
July 17, 1945