Previously unseen and historically significant home movie footage of FDR “walking”! The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum recently received footage of the 1935 White House Easter Egg Roll. Roosevelt historian and Library Trustee Geoffrey C. Ward believes the footage offers “the most vivid glimpse we’ve yet had” of President Roosevelt’s unique adapted walk made possible by the use of steel leg braces. FDR lost the use of his legs after contracting polio in 1921, at the age of
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Previously unseen and historically significant home movie footage of FDR “walking”! The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum recently received footage of the 1935 White House Easter Egg Roll. Roosevelt historian and Library Trustee Geoffrey C. Ward believes the footage offers “the most vivid glimpse we’ve yet had” of President Roosevelt’s unique adapted walk made possible by the use of steel leg braces. FDR lost the use of his legs after contracting polio in 1921, at the age of
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[4K, 60 fps, colorized] (1935) Only known footage of Roosevelt walking. White House Easter Egg Roll.
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[4K, 60 fps, colorized] (1935) Only known footage of Roosevelt walking. White House Easter Egg Roll.
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