Harry Truman
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Luke Rhym
President Speech
Harry S. Truman
On August 6, 1945, Harry Truman, the thirty third president of the United States, authorized the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Early that morning, the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, took off from the island of Tinian and headed northwest toward the city of Hiroshima in Japan. At 8:15 a.m. Hiroshima time, the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy”, and within minutes, 9 out of 10 people within half a mile or less from ground zero were dead, and three days later, Nagasaki fell to a similar fate. In my speech, I will talk about Truman’s early career and his presidency. Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri to John Truman and his wife Margaret. He was one of the only boys in his rugged frontier town to attend high school, but his plans to attend the U.S. Military Academy at...