The following teaser is from the May 19, 2014 Boston Globe:
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Rare film footage featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking to his seat at a baseball game helps dispel the myth that he completely hid his disability and shows the courage it took to go about his daily life, experts said Friday.
The clip, at youtube.com/watch?v=CvKDwBMEycw, shows Roosevelt, who was paralyzed from the waist down by polio in 1921, grasping a rail with one hand while being supported on the other side by an assistant. Roosevelt used a wheelchair because he could walk only with braces on his legs and the support of a cane.
‘‘Here is FDR going to a stadium full of people,’’ said Bob Clark, deputy director of FDR’s Presidential Library and Museum. ‘‘Even the simple act of going to a baseball game required a great deal of logistics and preparation.’’
