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Reporters race through the White House to be the first to break the news of the Japanese surrender after President Truman’s announcement of the unconditional surrender of Japan, which ended World War II.

Images: Photographs taken by Abbie Rowe. From the holdings of the Truman Presidential Library. (August 14, 1945).

Heh. And nowadays they’d just be racing to their smart phones and complaining about the WiFi.

Source: research.archives.gov
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