I once asked my grandmother to describe this day. She said, "We sat by the radio and cried all day."
@michaelfirman4700
2 жыл бұрын
My Mother said the same thing..
@kdr3619
2 жыл бұрын
@Straw Raps 2 He might have been ... but how many knew it back then? To most of the American people of his time, he was a loving American president, who aided and supported Europe in the battle against the nazis, and beloved enough to be elected four times for the presidency., among other feats. So yeah ... picturing them sitting by the radio and weeping along with the rest of the nation isn't a long-stretch ... and neither was it for a "racist freemason" ... not to those who wept.
@karenbores7127
2 жыл бұрын
I know it’s impossible to do, but I wish we had a President like him again.
@JazzyUte
2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother said they never knew another president other than Roosevelt. She was 20 years old when he died. She was eight when he took office. It was like losing a father figure.
@Diogo-jb9zy
Жыл бұрын
@@karenbores7127 psshs
@cenotemirror
2 жыл бұрын
During the Second World War, papers would run the day’s wartime casualty list after families had been notified. Name, age, rank. The day after FDR died, the very first entry was: ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. - 63 - Commander In Chief.
@indy_go_blue6048
2 жыл бұрын
My mom was born in 1921, and Roosevelt was about the only president she knew until his death. I don't think we can realize both the affection and the hatred FDR engendered. Anyway, I was living in central Georgia in 1979, and she came to my college graduation. The next day we visited Plains (Carter was president) and Warm Springs. Mom didn't have a big interest in history, but I could tell she was totally moved visiting the Little White House and seeing the room and bed in which he died. I do love history and I was moved as well, and very happy to have shared the experience with her.
@leftykoufax7084
2 жыл бұрын
JFK is the last President to die in office, both tragic days indeed, thanks for this important bit of history.
@moboutmen
2 жыл бұрын
When Radio was King.
@lbennhtx6072
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this !
@StephenLuke
10 ай бұрын
RIP Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
@signed_Bewildered
2 жыл бұрын
FDR was a great man.
@Lafayette320
Жыл бұрын
My high school teacher told us that FDR was president when he started his schooling, FDR died when he was a senior. This same teacher played a tape of Pres. Truman's mimicing of NBC's H.V. Kaltenbord reporting on election night how Truman would lose after the counting of the rural precincts.
@Christ0pherWade
2 жыл бұрын
3:34 - Battle Hymn of the Republic 6:48 - Give me a home where the buffalo roam. 8:17
@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676
2 жыл бұрын
I have the newspaper in the thumbnail in my collection.
@shorty332
2 жыл бұрын
I own the Life Magazine from that year with this in it.
@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676
2 жыл бұрын
@@shorty332 I have the overseas Life with no ads and printed on newsprint. It features a really great retrospective of FDR’s life.
@jasonbeard4713
2 жыл бұрын
You're very fortunate. I have a collection of radio items from the 1940s.
@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676
2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonbeard4713 I found in someone’s trash several stateside newspapers, Yank Magazines, Stars and Stripes, London Times, posters from Italy, maps of Italy and France, and Life magazines without ads for soldiers. It was a lucky find.
@jasonbeard4713
2 жыл бұрын
@@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 Thank you for preserving them. I love historical memories.
@Robertbrucelockhart
2 жыл бұрын
Like Lincoln, Roosevelt never saw the full fruit of his office’s labors and tribulation
@ericmudd4047
Жыл бұрын
He also never got to see all the terrible things that are still happening from all the terrible decisions he made while in office. At least Lincoln thought first before doing things all for a party and self.
@Robertbrucelockhart
Жыл бұрын
@@ericmudd4047 Yeah right. Terrible things. Victory in a war on two fronts, pulling the country out of depression, establishing social security, creating the FDIC. If Trump had been in office at that time, he’d have written love letters to Hitler.
@robertmoir5695
2 жыл бұрын
F.D.R.died without seeing the war s end
@StephenLuke
10 ай бұрын
😢💔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@josephwright1519
Жыл бұрын
Don Pardo is the announcer for this
@ezcleghorn4025
2 ай бұрын
There have been very few American presidents, who were almost universally beloved. Yes, they had their detractors, but the vast majority, and I mean, the vast majority of the country loved them. Fdr was clearly one of them, Ronald Reagan was another, George Washington was another. It doesn’t happen often but it’s amazing when it does. Four terms is just an incredible thing if you think about it.
@bradyfry8031
2 жыл бұрын
Did his death have anything to do with the stresses of the depression and WW2?
@damondrill2416
2 жыл бұрын
...and heavy, heavy smoking.
@fromthesidelines
Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
@mactheknife7049
Жыл бұрын
There's a lot of speculation as to Roosevelt's health, muddled quite a bit by official records which were deliberately destroyed in the immediate aftermath of his death. While the official cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke), from 1939 on what medical reports survived implied he was dealing with a mix of cardiac issues, a melanoma that through metastasis had gone to his brain, prostate cancer that one prominent surgeon refused to operate on (because his health otherwise was so bad, the doctor thought he'd not survive the operation), and more. Among the circumstantial evidence supporting cancer being the real culprit are photos of him from 1937-41 in which an obvious melanoma emerged, grew to alarming size, then suddenly disappeared from his left eyebrow; and also the astonishing weight loss during his final 18 months (during which he went from 190, to a "desirable" 175, to 160, and by the end of 1944 a weight so low that they stopped reporting on it but presumably 130 or less).
@ezcleghorn4025
2 ай бұрын
You clearly know nothing about American history because the depression had been over for about five years and the economy was booming, even though we were in the middle of a giant international conflict and crisis.
@fromthesidelines
Жыл бұрын
This was heard at 4pm(et).
@grolandstack8321
Жыл бұрын
I don't care to address each accusatory comment..not productive.. please all, dig and research history with curiosity and a nonjudgmental heart.
@janejames9173
2 жыл бұрын
💕💕💕💕💕
@onuryayla3797
2 жыл бұрын
1:35:21
@MikeHunt-rw4gf
2 жыл бұрын
Algorithm.
@banjo3751
2 жыл бұрын
The federal government and the IRS loved this man. The common man lost most of his freedoms due to him.
@hazmathauler4536
2 жыл бұрын
Omg 🙄🤦♂️. Spoken like a dumbass Republican.
@bobdillaber1195
2 жыл бұрын
FDR led the country to maintain freedom for the "common man". If Hitler had won there would have no freedom. Anywhere.
@banjo3751
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobdillaber1195 now enjoy all those nice taxes on top of taxes. You don’t own nothing now. Stop paying taxes to find out who your daddy is.
@bobdillaber1195
2 жыл бұрын
@@banjo3751 My friend, the problem we face in America is that the rich pay few taxes. Only in America can a company make 50 billion dollars profit in one year and pay no taxes. The rich own the politicians so the politicians write laws to protect the rich. The rest of us be damned.
@banjo3751
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobdillaber1195 that’s simple not true. “Elon Musk says he will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year”. That is just what liberals like to tell everyone. Fact is I pay car tax, gas tax, income tax, property tax, sales tax, capital gain tax and many more all because of the world FDR helped to create. And the kicker is if I don’t pay then the same system he set up will foreclose on the house and tax the car which means I actually don’t own them and are just leasing them from the government you are defending.
@bobking3730
2 жыл бұрын
Wartime propaganda, deifying a dead politician. Seems positively North Korean in tone by today’s standards. Forgive my lack of charity towards the racist patrician FDR. His decree sent my great-grandfather, a loyal American citizen, to a prison camp solely because he was born in Japan.
@hazmathauler4536
2 жыл бұрын
Life’s a bitch.
@anthonymarengo6228
2 жыл бұрын
FDR had his faults. The tribute certainly does sound like propaganda. No way this would have been done today.
@bobdillaber1195
2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonymarengo6228 It was done for JFK.
@bobdillaber1195
2 жыл бұрын
Bob King. That was a terrible thing that happened. Shameful. Unfortunately, we have much the same kind of behaviors toward people who are of certain ancestries in our country today. In fact, it was only a couple years ago the the United States government put little children in steel cages right here in this country.
@Robertbrucelockhart
2 жыл бұрын
In defense of the racist majority in America in 1930s-40s, the attack on Pearl Harbor was especially dastardly, and the national reaction was therefore deeply emotional. Hatred has to have a target. Today we are a bit capable of more complex moral reactions to such villainy, partly because of our experience in WWII. I can’t condemn him more than Lincoln for having quaint and dangerous notions about race.
@dexculpepper-py1jr
Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt gave in to Stalin to much and Churchill new it. Should of chased them back to the Soviet Union. I know Po
@dexculpepper-py1jr
Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt gave in to Stalin to much and Churchill new it. Should of chased them back to the Soviet Union. I know Poland and the rest would of loved it
@dexculpepper-py1jr
Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt gave in to Stalin to much and Churchill new it. Should of chased them back to the Soviet Union. I know Po
@dexculpepper-py1jr
Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt gave in to Stalin to much and Churchill new it. Should of chased them back to the Soviet Union. I know Po
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