Rare Footage of FDR Walking With Leg Braces 

That's part of why Americans loved him. He constantly did personal things like that.

No pic no proof

@@mapsinvideogames8621 u Ok man? You must be new to RU-vid I too would like to see this letter on the off chance that it’s available to do so (anyone can comment a link to a photo) and I too think it would be pretty cool to see

@@mapsinvideogames8621 i love when kids post these little comments acting like they don't look stupider than the person they're responding to

My uncle had a handwritten letter from Kennedy but it was stolen in a burglary when he lived in LA

Legendary comment

"I know theyre thinkin Im so white and nerdy."

**They called me rollypolly*

The Wasp “they see me strolling, they laughin And so far, they all think I’m so white and nerdy”

And Blacks been suckers ever since then.

Ovens??

There were other fighting nations

That is very blue pilled.

I think not, he was affected by polio not by a genetic disease. Gobbels himself suffered from polio in his childhood

@@andreaz9971 It's not about being sick in general. It's about being physically impaired/disabled which was a big no no and would indeed get you killed.

This is a very underrated comment

The last secret of FDR knew about the difficulty walking but the bald spot has been kept under the hat for a very long time.

Thats what I thought?

Kyle Schaff presidents nowadays can buy their hair back then you had to be creative

Who cares?!? People are obsessed with Trump's hair too! How can that possibly be important?

Exactly, it wasn’t so easy to take secret footage of someone in 1932.

no smartphone, just people enjoying the moment

@@432leumas"teChnoLogY bAd"

@@bluepikman7851 it is bad

@@JohnWayne-rg1hm Then why are you using it then? Tell me how so too.

"And lack of wheelchair accessibility"

“And the public witnessing me walking”

And sharks

And snakes

"The only thing to fear, is fear itself...or my throwing you in prison because of your racial ties to the enemy." - FDR

Nixon blew it in the US

@@SandfordSmythe how so?

@@VedantMishra55 Nixon became fair bait, as his presidency was corrupt .There was little sense of honor and respect left. Unfortunately this tradition carried on in the press.

@@SandfordSmythe he was a good president until he got exposed, which made him one of the worst presidents of the US. He ruined his own presidency

@@mickeymouse7704 Heck, Nixon wasn't even really involved in the break in at Watergate. He got caught trying to sweep it under the rug.

It's artificial colouring, not real color

@@him12672 there was color back then. Gone with the wind , Wizard of Oz came out in 1939. That was before this. It's just that most movies and TV shows stayed black and white until the mid 1960's.

@@adaminfinity1733 they werent recorded in color Color was added later

@@adaminfinity1733 Exactly. This footage wasn't recorded in color. It was artificially added.

@@RianeBane I believe Kodak has had color film since 1924, it was just more expensive then B&W, and color film STILL is substantially more expensive then black and white...

Yes, he wanted to get into the war so badly that he initiated the attack on pearl harbor, by cutting off oil to Japan. He knew it would instigate retaliation from them, AND he knew that they were going to attack pearl harbor, specifically, and did nothing about it. He allowed it to happen, to get Americans to support entering the war.

@@rossvaneldik3562 Japan was going to come after America anyways. The Philippines were too strategically important and resource rich. By cutting off the oil and moving the Pacific fleet to Hawaii he hoped that it would deter Japan's military posturing.

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underrated ^^^

You are not alone. I lived through the 1950s but am fascinated with the 1940s. My father lived and saw those times. I like the way men and women dressed back then and how life centered around family and family dinners and the radio with Roosevelt speaking.

Warm. 🎩✌️

T.R.E.V.O.R.

why everyone replying with trevor

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That would be u vacuum tube

@@williampfeiffer4536 no

Anonymous Guy Still not as bad as Trump would be, mocking his leg braces and pretending to walk like him!

I don’t think hiding a serious disease of a presidential candidate is something to be proud of...

@@eliwurster5237 no trump mocked a disable reporter when he was running for president

Eli Wurster he didn’t have the disease he just couldn’t walk because of it

Eli Wurster With his stage of polio it wouldn’t affect his long term health just his mobility.

G Blizzard it was actually from “Robot Chicken”.

@@princessmarlena1359 I gotta watch that.

Lol, and it's true it could go on and on

*Billie Eilish has left the chat*

🤣🤣😂

A line must be drawn between 'media,' as in reporters, who are generally respectful even today, and the public in general, who were granted an exactly equal appearance to actual reporters when the internet was set up in spite of the vast gulf between them.

@@dashiellgillingham4579 Yeah because the modern press is so great?

@@greenearth975 Not say'n they're perfect. Just that they're still the same people doing the same job, as they always have.

If the media didn't do & say what FDR wanted. He would send the IRS after them.

Honestly the media has always been divided like this.

Yes, he was using his upper body to swing his hips, more or less, and simulate the act of walking.

Amazing. I am huge fan of both Presidents, in my opinion the two greatest of all time. I think President Kennedy was friend of FDR son, am I right? God Bless You.

Nice detail relation with president John Fitsgerald Kennedy and FDR you probably know there are wiered conections with Abraham Lincoln and JFK for example they were elected president 100 years from each other in 1860 and 1960 respectibly or the fact that they were both shot in the back of the head by the side of their wifes or the fact that Lincoln was shot in FORDS theater and JFK was shot in a LINCOLN car made by FORD or that both of their assasins were killed before beeing put to trial or the fact that both of there succesors AKA vice presidents were named johnson and were southeners but there are some lies too like the fact that LIncoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named lincoln there are many other coincidences betteween many other presidents like the fact that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died the same day and 50 years since they helped write and adopt the Declaration of Independence or the fact that both teedy Roosevelt and Ronald Regan were shot and survived

JFK was a physical mess. He was often photographed and filmed in a rocking chair, which he needed for his back. Oftentimes, JFK could barely move. I would argue he was in much worse health than FDR was.

@Airlord 1300 you mean like chain smoking and having double martini's at lunch, dinner and in the evening? Not to mention messing around with his "secretaries"...

I believe JFK's back problems were largely caused by a serious injury he sustained in naval combat in WWII, after which he spent two days floating in the ocean rescuing crewmen.

What do you mean

@@Ooth9999 1:10 I always knew he couldn't walk I never knew he was this bald tho

@@benjaminteixeira4709 because he had enough length in the front to cover the mid section

He had a weird tape up

It's artificial

Maserati7200 there is colour on Eisenhower’s oath you can see Hoover on the side

black and white film, recently colorized

@@1960markN Cyrano de Bergerac is thought to be the first film shown in color and sound. It was filmed in 1900 so its completely possible.

@@soaplore first of all your not Churchill and second of all and there’s been color photos and videos they weren’t common but in the late 1920s and even before that

He wouldn’t last in today’s political world.

@@TheMan05555 yeah lol

Anyone else think John Lithgow would make an FDR spitting image on film?

@@neilfeinberg7825 He does make a good Churchill tho. Idk about FDR.

@@TheMan05555 If Joe Biden could, FDR could.

He was a good speaker, but a pretty bad president.

Steven Hart I guess that’s why the nation re-elected him three times and his administration began with the Great Depression and ended with America’s golden age.

@@nicolasg8091 4 times

@@nicolasg8091 based

@@stevenhart6788 Yeah right, Hoover was such a better option.Are you for real?

No they would be like: “he’s extremely racist, he’s not fit to be president”

Indonesia once had a blind president.

Every news article would be "He's not fit for President!"

@@JD-Media no they would be “he’s racist, he’s not fit to be president”

Didn't the GOP throw that wheelchair guy on stage and make him stand up and salute during the RNC last year? Oddly enough I think FDR would have been shown off as a underdog story in modern politics but not to the point of presidency . Also his policies would get shot down immediately in America's currently political climate

And about two months ago a third piece of footage of him doing the walk at the White House balcony in 1935 was found

Geog Acct While FDR did fuck up at times, he helped America slowly get back on its feet (especially with the war).

His moto was if something doesn't work admit it frankly and try something else - so at least he tried new ideas!

The vast majority of his policies worked, and many of them are still in effect to this day. His biggest mistake, which hurt his image and went against his otherwise progressive policies, was the interment of Japanese-Americans. Aside from that, which was very, very bad. He was a fantastic president and one of the absolute best we've ever had.

Joseph Price I would also say his attempt to pack the court was even worse than the internment camps, was downright racist.

Joseph Price facist *

*The Greatest

He's "doing" the "chicken"

Just like Oprah

@@destubae3271 shut up this is about Franklin D Roosevelt not Oprah

Since FDR, somehow every president is worse/not a lot better than the one before him. :/

I know!! Truly, 'What Happened?' to the Democratic Party? Back in those days we had real leaders with real vision. The closest people to them these days are Obama and Bernie. Bernie's job plan actually would bring back New Deal programs.

awakeningspirit20 exactly I’m a democrat I’ve been a democrat my whole life Bernie got my hyped to be a democrat but when he lost I didn’t even go vote

I've taken political quizzes and I score as a Democrat on every category! I just consider myself one of the New Deal era. I support guns and life and God but also left wing economic causes and solutions. It's a shame that I can't find peace in either party these days, but I believe that after the Dems lose a bit more they will eventually revert back to their old way, FDR's way!

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell thank you for not voting for Hillary Clinton on principal. Thanks for guaranteeing that the Supreme Court will be progressively more hostile to the basic rights of women and minorities for another generation.

I did last year and it was wonderful. I also visited Hyde Park.

Names dont mean anything, do something for yourself

I bet you're black

You shouldn't look into FDR.

im happy to be named Franklin

What a racist! This man was no hero, and for whatever reason, the left refuses to tell the truth about this racist communist!!!

Thank you Nacho. 🎩✌️

Well, I guess it's a fair discussion whether you can have a state leader in a wheelchair. Even the late german politician Wolfgang Schäuble (who was in wheelchair himself) said that.

@@Ettibridget I want to know the impedances beyond mobility.

Your name suits you poorly. He was a crippled bigoted Fascist. You are devoid of knowledge of history.

who killd Jay if kay?

@Mihai Craciun The nazis got all their race laws from DEMOCRATS and, eugenics ideas from Progressives like MARGARET SANGER of planned partenhood. FDR had a 90% tax rate which made the depression go on YEARS after it should have ended. You need you read you some THOMAS SOWELL.

Roland Deschain hile, gunslinger

@@isorokudono "FDR had a 90% tax rate which made the depression go on YEARS after it should have ended" well considering we didn't have another Great Recession for the next 60 years or so following his New Deal and ONLY after his acts (like Glass-Steagall) were repealed did we start having recessions every 10 years.

You think press should have freedom of speech when it can be used as the voice of the government to push political agendas like making the sitting President look able? Well it does.

And a Great Depression

@Thomas Paine I"m shocked that a Bernie supporter like you admire's Jimmy Carter the president who started era of deregulation.

Obama isn't class?

C caymer I'd rather take The Great communicator "Ronald Reagan" or JFK.

Becaue Fascism is dead.

After Churchill and Hitler, all European leaders became a joke, except for Vladimir Putin, the most powerful man on Earth. If he was in WW2 leader of Russia, he would've fucked Hitler's Nazi ass before he commits suicide and then come back to Russia to spank Stalin's commie ass out.

Well it’s more of American pride and symbolism. They chose not to show him handicapped because we were in WWII and we needed a powerful leader.

He was a wonderful leader.

Like Obama, he had a pen and a phone, that's how through executive order, he had millions of Japanese Americans incarcerated for the duration of the war.

Legal Vampire I know that I saw that in a documentary about him

Why?

Nah He can stay worm food Along with His "New World Order" agenda

Good person, Bad president

And He died in bed, with his mistress on top of him.

lol

definitely not one of the best

@@s.c5714 FDR led the US through the depression in the 1930s, ordered the New Deal, he also led the US through the WWII, and is by many considered as one of the best. But of course one can argue about that, and considering we so far have had 46 presidents, I'm sure there are plenty to count as better or best.

@@sarkaniemi He also re-segregated the White House, aired The Clansmen in the theater, appointed Klansmen to government rôles, denied black Olympians White House access, imprisoned Japanese in concentration camps, attempted to stack the courts in 1937, had ridiculous taxes of 75%-94% which dragged the depression, which he solved by provoking the Japanese into war. He did this all while having polio, interesting indeed.

@@googeleioguy Surely he made some decisions that today sound controversial or crazy. But back then, it was different. Times change. Back then, the American society was a bit different, and certain values were more accepted. I do not defend it, but I only say that certain things were more common and more accepted back then. Not only by FDR, but by the American public. But let's keep in mind that FDR is the longest-serving US president who won four consecutive presidential terms, and was in office for twelve years. He was elected by the people, and the American people voted for him. So he was elected as the best choice during that time by the American people. Again, times change, and so do certain values. Two hundred years ago, slavery was a common practice. Today it's unthinkable and wrong in all aspects. So if we look back at history, we can certainly notice mistakes that some people (leaders etc.) made, but it's easier now to point them out in our time. Back then or back in time, some things were different. I don't defend FDR for everything he did, and you are right about the points you mention, but still we need to keep in mind that he was elected by the American people as the best choice. And also I think US presidents (or any other leader) make an oath to do their best for their country and make the best decisions for their country. I assume the choices and the decisions he made back then were the best for America.

@@sarkaniemi I understand your point about his 4 consecutive elections, but in his time, previous presidents had already de-segregated, he brought the country into war and put people in concentration camps. Judging him by 20th century standards, he was still a racist and a war-monger; he did win 4 elections though. I give him credit for that [helped from the wartime hype]

Its not about discrimination towards a handicapped guy, its about the health concerns of the presidential office. The Government and the people don't want to elect a guy who can't even function on his own to the most difficult job in the entire country. FDR dying in 1945 and Truman taking his place only proved that further.

@@bullmoosevelt4495 FDR died in 1945 not 1944

FDR would _not_ be elected today, and here’s why: _He’s dead_

The 22nd amendment only applies to people who are elected after 1947, he could still run.

@@SPYC_1 umm actually he can’t.

@@SPYC_1 he had polio so I don’t think he could run very well

@@AP-23 tru, tru

Guy was a queen. Married his cousin for a beard.

He had a little sugar in his gas tank.

Some of you are way behind the times, haven't you seen some old movies, that were black and white that have since been colorized, in this digital age?

I’ve seen footage of him shaking hands with Churchill and he appears to be standing without any assistance. I don’t know if it was deliberately hidden but it was indeed hidden.

jewish puppet

Franklin delanp roosevelt, please say his name well

You still got Bernie.

Nah lbj better

@Sebastian Guevara it was a expirement lbj is horrible fdr is the best

j stanton Good I hope you will reply to this Andy Griffith had it

We should bring that back fr

Psa_53:1　 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Buzzy1960 GTFO with your fake news.

Milhouse did you see the movie Sunrise at Campobello??????!!!….it the film version of the play about FDR after he first got polio…….. I hope you will reply to this

We should really use that trick on rare endangered species

It’s rare because there’s very little footage of said subject... not because of how many people see this video.

Yoda I am 88 I wish that was possible

"Have you seen this FDR guy? It's pathetic, folks. Total loser. Can't walk, he's in a wheelchair, can't have that. He's running for president. Can you believe that guy? We can't have a leader in a wheelchair. We need good legs. I have legs. I have the best legs."

Yeah, I was imitating him, that was the joke

His name is Bernie Sanders

Harambe Nights also, if it wasn’t for him, we might have lost world war 2

Washington ruled like a tyrant, Lincoln ruled out the chance of ever having peaceful secession and FDR ruined the economy and made socialism semi mainstream

@@helpme2999 define socialism