Clifton Truman Daniel

Chairman, Board of Trustees, Truman Library

Expert

Listen to Clifton Truman Daniel’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Clifton Truman Daniel is the son of Margaret Truman Daniel and the grandson of President Harry Truman. He is a former feature writer and editor for the Morning Star and Sunday Star-News, a New York Times paper in Wilmington, NC. He is the honorary chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute in Independence, MO. He has traveled to Japan on several occasions to meet with Japanese officials and atomic bomb survivors.

Related Profiles

Frank A. Settle, Jr.

Frank A. Settle, Jr., is an analytical chemist and author of the book General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb, released in 2016.

Siegfried Hecker

Los Alamos, NM

Siegfried Hecker is an American nuclear scientist. He served as director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986-1997.

Jim Eckles

Trinity Site

Jim Eckles worked for decades for the White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office, managing open houses and tours of the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear test took place.

Martin Moeller

Washington, DC

Martin Moeller is the Senior Curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where the exhibition “Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project” opened in 2018.