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 ...

The FDR Memorial Commission says “no,” on the grounds that FDR went to great lengths to hide his polio-induced inability to stand or walk unaided and that desire should be honored.

In The Man He Became, historian James Tobin says, despite misimpressions to the contrary, Americans of Franklin Roosevelt's day were well-aware of his disability — it was an important part of ...

Rare footage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking, aided by braces on his legs as well as several Secret Service agents, has been made public after nearly 80 years.

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

A retired educator from the Newnan area was a special guest of Bradshaw-Chambers County Library’s summer reader program on ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

FDR contracted polio at the age of 39, which left his legs partially paralyzed. Fearing this would impact his bid for presidency, he came to an agreement with the press: no photos of him walking ...

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 ...

My mother-in-law was diagnosed in 1923, two years after 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio. The story goes that he may have contracted it at a lakeside Boy Scout jamboree at Bear Mountain.

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 ...

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 ...