Click images to enlarge.Īrticle describing the speech given by General Eisenhower to Abilene residents titled “Eisenhower Calls Friends to Realize Responsibility in United Effort for Peace”, Abilene Reflector-Chronicle front page from June 22, 1945. Click image to enlarge.Īrticle discussing General Eisenhower’s arrival by train titled “Ike is at Home”,Ībilene Reflector-Chronicle front page and page 6 from June 22, 1945. “Abilene’s Greatest Son Comes Home”, Abilene Reflector-Chronicle front pageįrom June 22, 1945. General Eisenhower homecoming train seating chart and menu, Papers of Harry Darby, Kansas Collection,Ĭall number: RH MS 1345, Box 9, Folder 35. Papers of Harry Darby, Kansas Collection, call number: RH MS 1345, Box 9, Folder 35. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, or come visit us here at Spencer Research Library!Įisenhower homecoming train brochure and menu front cover, signed by Dwight D. If you’re interested in learning more about our nation’s only president from Kansas, check out this great entry in the Kansas Historical Soceity’s Kansapedia, book a trip to the Dwight D. Here at the Spencer Research Library, as a part of our Kansas Collection, we have General Eisenhower’s Homecoming train brochure signed by the man himself and the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle issue reporting on his historic return. After Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945, then General Eisenhower returned to his hometown of Abilene. But before he became the 34 th President of the United States, Eisenhower served as the commanding general of the U.S. Here he worked ceaselessly to deescalate the cold war and poured his energies into working towards world peace. Eisenhower served 8 years in the office from 1953-1961. The only president to come from Kansas, Dwight D. Abilene, Kansas is a small city of under 7,000 people, but it managed to produce one of the most influential U.S.

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