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

Was it FDR’s response to polio that made him great? How could it be denied as a factor, but was catching the disease dispositive? Was the anti-New Dealer, Herbert Hoover, the tremendous organizer of ...

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 fact, many polio victims were subjected to living inside an iron lung, ... The most famous American to battle the virus was former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ...

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 ...

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

After Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio, it was suspected that he caught it when he made a summertime visit to a Boy Scout camp in New York. Polio tended to spread in the summer and fall before the ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, with their two dogs. Corbis via Getty Images “In 1921, Franklin Roosevelt was stricken with polio, ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was diagnosed with polio in 1921, when he was 39, sought relief by taking dips in Georgia's warm springs. During a 1940s polio outbreak, ...

Answer the following questions as you view the film. View the Introduction to the film, which describes how polio ravaged the small town of Wytheville, VA. As a class, prepare an oral history of ...