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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A professor at an Indiana college says he has found film footage showing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt being pushed in his wheelchair, depicting a secret that was ...
The country, along with FDR, pretended otherwise: Cartoons showed him running down the field, carrying the ball; photographs of him in a wheelchair or being carried were never published.
Roosevelt wheelchair: An article in the July 14 Section A about rare film footage showing President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a moving wheelchair said that President Clinton dedicated a statue in ...
During his four terms as president, Roosevelt often used a wheelchair in private, but not for public appearances. News photographers cooperated in concealing Roosevelt’s disability, and those ...
The press and the president's aides kept Franklin D. Roosevelt's use of a wheelchair hidden from most of the public during his more than 12 years as the nation's leader. So hidden, in fact ...
Few photos show Roosevelt in a wheelchair, and the media largely granted his wish not to mention his disability in stories. Some political cartoons even depicted him as running or hopping over ...
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana professor says he has found film footage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt being pushed in a wheelchair, depicting a secret hidden from the public until after his ...
I agree with Marc Fisher [Metro, Jan. 11] regarding the new wheelchair statue at the FDR Memorial. But I was surprised that he didn't make one important point: The FDR Memorial already had a ...
The memorial's commission deliberately omitted any depiction of Roosevelt in a wheelchair on the grounds that it was in keeping with the president's efforts to conceal his condition from the public.
“I am an FDR buff,” plaintiff Phil Beder, who uses a wheelchair, said in a statement released by the group Disability Rights Advocates. “He’s my hero. It’s patently ironic that a ...
"I am an FDR buff," plaintiff Phil Beder, who uses a wheelchair, said in a statement released by the group Disability Rights Advocates. "He's my hero. It's patently ironic that a memorial built in ...