FDR And Polio: The Scourge (Part 1)

This Day in Esoteric Political History by Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

For the thirty-seventh installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to the 1920s and the moment Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio. We look at how the disease terrified the American public, how FDR contrac...View more