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He was hospitalized on December 4, 1972, with lung congestion, heart irregularity, kidney blockages and failure of the digestive system. He died on December 26. A very subdued and private funeral,...
Truman was elected vice president in the 1944 presidential election and became president upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Only then was he told about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Truman authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On December 23, Truman slipped into a coma. Doctors told reporters that the former president was unresponsive and in critical condition. On Christmas Eve doctors described Truman as weakening, suffering from an abnormal heart rate and fluctuating blood pressure.
Harry Truman was a healthy President who was very rarely kept away from his office due to sickness. That changed in the summer of 1952, when he was hospitalized with a streptococcus infection.
On December 5, 1972, Truman was admitted to Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center with pneumonia. He developed multiple organ failure, fell into a coma, and died at 7:50 a.m. on December 26, at the age of 88.
Note: Former President Harry S Truman, 88, died after a long illness at Research Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. The statement was released at Key Biscayne, Fla. On December 27, 1972, the President and Mrs. Nixon placed a wreath at President Truman's bier in the Truman Library in Independence, Mo.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 26 —Harry S. Truman, the 33d President of the United States, died this morning. He was 88 years old. Mr. Truman, an outspoken and decisive Missouri Demo crat who...
Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died at age 88 in Kansas City after coming down with pneumonia on this day in history, Dec. 26, 1972. His legacy has grown in recent...
Less than three months later, on April 12, 1945, the president died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 63. Several hours after learning of Roosevelt’s death, a stunned Truman was given the...
“The autopsy report showed that he died of a complexity of organic failures causing the collapse of the cardiovascular system,” Truman spokesperson Randall Jessee told reporters in the hours...