Previously unseen home movie footage of FDR’s adapted walk
Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed by polio at the age of 39. He devised a method of “walking” where he used a cane and the arm of a companion for balance. During his Presidency, the press was told not to film his disability. The FDR Presidential Library recently received footage of the 1935 White House Easter Egg Roll from a family in Nevada. Historian Geoffrey C. Ward believes it’s “the most vivid glimpse we’ve yet had” of FDR’s adapted walk. Find out the yarn behind the scarce film. -from @fdrlibrary
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