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When FDR contracted polio 100 years ago, it forged one of the greatest presidents - The Washington Post
A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking. By 1921, ... In August 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken and transformed by a paralyzing disease.
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Study Challenges Polio as Cause Of FDR's Illness
Above, Franklin D. Roosevelt inspects a Boy Scout camp in 1921, just before he was paralyzed. As president, in 1938, left, he delivers one of his fireside chats via radio. Sign up ...
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Newly discovered footage offers rare glimpse of FDR walking at the White House
Newly discovered film footage shows FDR walking. Raw video: Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was paraplegic after contracting polio and worried about appearing vulnerable to the American public, seen ...
15 Photos From the Peak of Polio
Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to ...
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My mother’s walk through life with polio - CNN
The March of Dimes, an organization founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt after his struggle with polio, estimates up to 250,000 people in the US may have it. Like others who get PPS, she started ...
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Did I get the polio vaccine? How to know if you are protected against the virus - CBS News
President Franklin D. Roosevelt survived a bout of polio in 1921 and was left paralyzed. He founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes, which ...
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My mother’s walk through life with polio | CNN - CNN International
The March of Dimes, an organization founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt after his struggle with polio, estimates up to 250,000 people in the US may have it. Like others who get PPS, she started ...
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My mother’s walk through life with polio - Local News 8
My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she ...
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My mother's walk through life with polio
My mother's walk through life with polio At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. Posted 2022-08-20T09:06:13+00:00 - Updated 2022-08-20T09 ...
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My mother's walk through life with polio - KTVZ
My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she ...
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My mother’s walk through life with polio - KESQ
By Andrea Kane, CNN My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. She contracted polio in her native Argentina ...