Rare film depicts Franklin Roosevelt in wheelchair (video at link)

[steve2470]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fdr-wheelchair-video-20130712,0,392047.story

Drowsy from watching hours of unedited World War II film footage, Ray Begovich snapped to attention when one eight-second snippet flashed before him.

Begovich, a journalism professor at Franklin College in Indiana, was visiting the National Archives in College Park, Md., doing research for a biography on President Franklin Roosevelt’s director of war information.

The 16-millimeter film showed Roosevelt visiting the Navy's U.S. heavy cruiser Baltimore on July 26, 1944.

Toward the end of the film, a photographer captured Roosevelt exiting a doorway down a ramp. The president moved in a gliding motion, the top of his head barely visible, as he was in a wheelchair.

[WestStar]

1. Ahh, the good old days when journalists would actually cooperate with the government.

Nothing like the current vultures.

Can you imagine what they would do to JFK today?

[Diclotican]

2. WestStar

WestStar

Properly the same as they did with Clinton - just worse...

Diclotican