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Bus #24 from Kansas City goes to the small town
of INDEPENDENCE , twenty minutes east of the
city and most famous as the former home of President Harry S.
Truman. The Truman Presidential Museum and Library
on US-24 and Delaware Street (Mon-Wed & Sat 9am-5pm, Thurs
9am-9pm, Sun noon-5pm; $5) includes a reconstruction of his White
House office, and chilling documents pertaining to the development
of the atomic bomb. The Victorian Truman Home , a mile south at
219 N Delaware St, is decorated as it was when it functioned as
the summer White House (daily 8.30am-5pm, in winter closed Mon;
$3).
Jesse James staged the first ever daylight bank
robbery in 1866 in what's now the Jesse James Bank Museum
, on the Old Town Square of LIBERTY , fifteen
miles northeast of downtown Kansas City (Mon-Sat 9am-4pm; $4).
Among the memorabilia and dusty relics of early banking, you can
see the vault and the safe that he raided.
