Transportation and communication were just as the right stages for FDR. 20 years earlier and he could not have been seen and heard as much. 20 years later and he could not have hidden his polio as well.
i also had polio but at 8 for me. and surprisingly enough i feel it shaped my life in many positive ways and made me a better man that i might have become otherwise. :-)
He didn't hide his disability, but would not be seen in a wheelchair. Hmm. He wasn't afraid of people seeing him walk, but he was afraid to be seen falling. Hmm. I think this rosy picture of FDR and manner in which he portrayed himself is just untrue.
@Kev Warriner It's a struggle to maintain one's dignity when you have a disability of any kind, especially in public. I walk with a cane because of my arthritic lower back. It makes people feel uncomfortable.
FDR developed polio when he was on Campobello Island, a part of New Brunswick, in 1921. It was the summer residence of the Roosevelt family, so I,m not sure how a boy scout camp-out comes into play. And there's also no way he tried to potray an image of struggling to recover from disabilility, as he never talked about his polio during his presidency.
The polio virus has an incubation period of at least seven days (and up to about three weeks). FDR arrived on Campobello Island on Aug. 8th and was already complaining of fatigue. By Aug. 10th he was obviously extremely ill -- so he had been infected before he came to Campobello. It is not known for certain that he was infected at the camp with those boyscouts on July 28th in Bear Mountain State Park in New York, but it is the obvious guess: there were some 2,000-odd children at the camp, polio tended to strike children most of all, and there had been several summer outbreaks of polio in New York since 1916.
He first showed signs of polio at Campobello but there was no one there with the disease. This is why historians assume he contracted the disease from swimming with those Boy Scouts (urban low-class rabble).
He stopped en route at the Boy Scout jamboree before boarding a friend's yacht to sail to Campobello. Many medical biographers felt he likely contracted polio at the jamboree.
Medical historians believe FDR HAD Guillian_barre not polio. Why, the initial doctors findings were of ascending paralysis ,polio depends down the spinal cord.
Transportation and communication were just as the right stages for FDR. 20 years earlier and he could not have been seen and heard as much. 20 years later and he could not have hidden his polio as well.
Truly fascinating!
i also had polio but at 8 for me. and surprisingly enough i feel it shaped my life in many positive ways and made me a better man that i might have become otherwise. :-)
polio is curable these days.
Love him, so handsome as well
He didn't hide his disability, but would not be seen in a wheelchair. Hmm. He wasn't afraid of people seeing him walk, but he was afraid to be seen falling. Hmm. I think this rosy picture of FDR and manner in which he portrayed himself is just untrue.
@Kev Warriner It's a struggle to maintain one's dignity when you have a disability of any kind, especially in public. I walk with a cane because of my arthritic lower back. It makes people feel uncomfortable.
FDR developed polio when he was on Campobello Island, a part of New Brunswick, in 1921. It was the summer residence of the Roosevelt family, so I,m not sure how a boy scout camp-out comes into play. And there's also no way he tried to potray an image of struggling to recover from disabilility, as he never talked about his polio during his presidency.
The polio virus has an incubation period of at least seven days (and up to about three weeks). FDR arrived on Campobello Island on Aug. 8th and was already complaining of fatigue. By Aug. 10th he was obviously extremely ill -- so he had been infected before he came to Campobello. It is not known for certain that he was infected at the camp with those boyscouts on July 28th in Bear Mountain State Park in New York, but it is the obvious guess: there were some 2,000-odd children at the camp, polio tended to strike children most of all, and there had been several summer outbreaks of polio in New York since 1916.
He first showed signs of polio at Campobello but there was no one there with the disease. This is why historians assume he contracted the disease from swimming with those Boy Scouts (urban low-class rabble).
He stopped en route at the Boy Scout jamboree before boarding a friend's yacht to sail to Campobello. Many medical biographers felt he likely contracted polio at the jamboree.
Medical historians believe FDR HAD Guillian_barre not polio. Why, the initial doctors findings were of ascending paralysis ,polio depends down the spinal cord.
Nice video.
Too much clorophorm his mother when he was born they had to resusatate him not slap him huh think it had something to do with ???