Let There Be Light? FDR Is In the Dark: 1938 (Part 1)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES FDR's Speech Should Have Been A Triumph. Should Have.

.U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) addresses the people of Barnesville, Georgia, August 11, 1938. He’s standing at a specially-built podium that allows the President, who is paralyzed from the waist down, to maintain in public the illusion that he can walk. In 1938, people with disabilities are shut away. They are not the President of the U…