It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

My mother-in-law was diagnosed in 1923, two years after 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio. The story goes that he may have contracted it at a lakeside Boy Scout jamboree at Bear Mountain.

A retired educator from the Newnan area was a special guest of Bradshaw-Chambers County Library’s summer reader program on ...

In 1921, FDR contracted polio - paralyzing him from the waist down. In the coming years, Roosevelt continually fought to regain the use of his legs.

FDR first came to Warm Springs in the 1920s looking for a cure for his polio in the natural hot springs. He built a cottage there in the 1930s, and it became his presidential retreat, earning the ...

Answer the following questions as you view the film. View the Introduction to the film, which describes how polio ravaged the small town of Wytheville, VA. As a class, prepare an oral history of ...