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Harry Truman's Hospital Band

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Harry Truman's Hospital Band
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Hospital wristband worn by President Harry S. Truman when he died at Research Hospital in Hospital wristband worn by President Harry S. Truman when he died at Research Hospital in Kansas City 26 December 1972. The 0.5'' wide and 7'' in diameter white wristband has printed on the label, ''TRUMAN PRESIDENT HARRY S / W H GRAHAM 19868 745'' and has some light ink smearing as well as green rusting surrounding the snap. Provenance includes an inscribed biography of Harry Truman by his daughter Margaret to the security agent at the hospital who received the wristband: ''For Roland Eldridge, Good luck and many thanks for being so helpful at Research. Margaret Truman December 1972.'' Also included is a letter of authenticity from the previous owner, Tennessee Commissioner John W. Elliott, indicating that he acquired the wristband and book from Independence, Missouri and that the security agent, Roland Eldridge, to whom Margaret gave the book, updated her upon her father's medical condition from the hospital, since she was in New York at the time. From the December 1972 inscription, it's apparent that Eldridge received the book before it was released to the public in January 1973.