Historic Presentation Night

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The Watchdog: How The Truman Committee Battled Corruption And Helped Win World War II

Willow Run and the B-24 Liberators made there were one of the production miracles of World War 2, but in the war’s early days the massive bomber plant was anything but a miracle. And so, it surprised no one in early 1943 when a U.S. Senate committee came to town to investigate.

That’s just one of several storylines in Steve Drummond’s award-winning book, The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War 2. In it, Drummond also tells how a virtually unknown politician, Senator Harry S. Truman, became a national hero as the investigations by his committee made front-page news across the country.

Steve Drummond, a long-time journalist at NPR in Washington who grew up in Wayne and Westland, will talk about his book and his own connections with Willow Run and Michigan history.

Speaker: Steve Drummond

Doors open at 6:30

$10 per Person: non-members

FREE: Museum members with registration

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