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 footage FDR didn't want the world to see: Rare film unearthed of former president WALKING at baseball game as he secretly battled polio. It was filmed by MLB pitcher Jimmie DeShong in ...

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. That’s ...

Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39, and Tobin's new book explores his battle with the illness and the ways it molded his character and influenced his rise in the Democratic Party.

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 ...

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.

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 ...