A pictorial history of Presidential turkey pardons from Harry Truman through Barack Obama

By Jack Brummet, Holidays and Holy Days Editor

President Harry S. Truman seems to have been the first President to issue a pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey, in 1947.  All subsequent Presidents have carried on the tradition.

Oddly, I can't find an image of any of Jimmy Carter's pardons, only this shot:

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