National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd President of the United States of America. Truman first learned of the Manhattan Project after the death of President Roosevelt in April of 1945, when he relinquished his role as Vice President and took the oath of office as the next president of the United States.
Paula Bruggemann was born in 1940 in the agricultural community of White Bluffs, Washington. Their father owned a prosperous fruit farm along the Columbia River before the U.