Former President Truman today visited the Jewish Theological Seminary here and toured the old manuscript room of the library. Mr. Truman spent an hour and a half at the Seminary.
Accompanied by his friend and former business associate Edward Jacobson and a party of Seminary officials, headed by Chancellor Louis Finkelstein. Mr. Truman handled many of the library’s rare manuscripts. On his way out. Mr. Truman stopped in the reading room, spoke with several students and shook hands with them. He also addressed a small gathering of students and faculty members in the main building and thanked them for an “interesting and instructing morning.”
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