In this issue: New Short Film Broadcast FDR's 1936 Ford Phaeton; The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; Hybrid Author Talk and Book Signing with Kevin Baker; FDR's Wheelchair; Careless Talk and #TheArtOfWar; FDR and Polio.
FDR's 1936 Ford Phaeton is one of the most iconic objects in the Museum Collection. Specially modified to be operated with hand controls, it gave him the freedom to drive despite his disability. FDR Library Director William Harris and former race car driver Robert Dyson join together to take a deeper look at this one-of-a-kind artifact.
Documentary Film Screening
The Vow From Hiroshima
Sunday, August 11 2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
The Roosevelt Library and The Gillespie Forum present the award-winning documentary film The Vow From Hiroshima by Susan Strickler and Mitchie Takeuchi–an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 85-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. A question-and-answer session with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Hybrid Program
Author Talk and Book Signing
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
with Kevin Baker
Tuesday, September 24
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
The FDR Presidential Library presents an author talk of The New York Game: Baseball and The Rise of a New City – A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist, historian, and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Franklin Roosevelt was stricken with polio and permanently paralyzed below the waist. Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt explores FDR's disability that includes one of the President's wheelchairs and a set of his steel leg braces.
(Originally broadcast August 4, 2021; 12:27 minutes)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his wheelchair on the porch at Top Cottage in Hyde Park, NY with Ruthie Bie and Fala. February 1941. This photograph was taken by his friend, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley.
Franklin D. Roosevelt served an unprecedented four terms in office, but he was also the first president with a significant physical disability. FDR was diagnosed with infantile paralysis, better known as polio, in 1921, at the age of 39.
Prescription from Dr. Linder Inc. for leg braces. Includes a handwritten note from FDR saying the braces don’t fit. July 5, 1926. From collection: FDR Family, Business, Personal Papers. File: "Infantile Paralysis"
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"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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