In this issue:The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; The Creation of Social Security; Hybrid Author Talk and Book Signing with Kevin Baker; Author Talk with Nicholas Reynolds; The Sound That Kills and #TheArtOfWar; August 14th: A Day of Two Anniversaries.
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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.
FDR considered the creation of Social Security to be his greatest domestic achievement. This session traces the creation and passage of the Social Security Insurance Act, one of the most important pieces of social legislation in American history.
FDR's signing statement. He makes a note of when to stop and sign. It's a "measure" before he signs and a "law" afterwards.
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.
A conversation with Nicholas Reynolds, author of Need To Know: World War II and The Rise of American Intelligence – explores the birth, infancy, and adolescence of modern American intelligence.
(Originally broadcast November 4, 2022; 1:11:54 minutes)
The Sound That Kills. This poster by cartoonist Eric Ericson drives home FDR's message that “Loose talk delays victory" from his November 17, 1942 speech.
August 14th is a very significant day in the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two of the most important and lasting achievements of his presidency occurred on this day – ten years apart. The Social Security Act was enacted on August 14th, 1935, and the official end of World War II occurred when the Japanese signed the terms of surrender in 1945.
FDR signs the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935.
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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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