David B. Woolner, historian and author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace, speaks with Library Director William Harris in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s death. (Originally broadcast April 10, 2025.)
Memorial Day Weekend Event
May 24-25, 2025
World War II Military Displays
Time: 10am - 4pm ET
Location: FDR Library Great Lawn
In honor of Memorial Day Weekend, the Great Lawn in front of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will take on the appearance of a World War II encampment with WWII Military Displays.
Period military vehicles of all sizes – including a Sherman Tank – and soldiers in battle dress will be on hand to share their love of World War II history.
Factory worker Barry Kane is wrongly accused of sabotage after a deadly fire at an airplane plant. Believing another man is responsible, he travels cross-country to find the real culprit. Along the way, he takes Patricia Martin hostage, but she soon becomes his ally in the search to clear his name.
Theodore Roosevelt I (1831-1878) was the father of President Theodore Roosevelt and Elliott Roosevelt (Eleanor Roosevelt's father). Following his death in 1878, artist Daniel Huntington painted three posthumous portraits of Roosevelt, from a photograph, for his children. Eleanor Roosevelt inherited this portrait from her father.
"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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