INDIANAPOLIS, a professor in a University of Indiana says he has found film footage showing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed in his wheelchair, representing a secret that is hidden from the public after his death.
Ray Begovich, a Professor of journalism at the Franklin University South of Indianapolis, said Tuesday that found the clip of eight seconds while unrelated researching at the national archives in College Park, Maryland National Archives and the Presidential Library and Museum of FDR could not say with certainty if there is other footage, but is less rare.
Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921 at age 39 and was unable to walk without assistance or the leg supports. During his four terms as President, Roosevelt often uses a wheelchair in private, but not for public appearances. News Photographers cooperated in hiding the inability of Roosevelt and those who are not your camera views blocked by agents of the secret service, according to the web site of the library and Museum of FDR.
"This raw movie clip can be the first images of the film of the President in his wheelchair, and was never going to show to the world," said Begovich.
Bob Clark, supervisory Archivist at the library of Roosevelt in New York, said that he knew of no other similar film.
A spokeswoman for the national archives agreed. "Connection with or it is not existing more early or images only of FDR in a wheelchair, we cannot say that this is definitely the case, even if such material is certainly rare," Laura Diachenko said in an email.
The film shows Roosevelt visiting the U.S.S. Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944. Eight seconds of the clip show Roosevelt out of a doorway to the nave and are accompanied by what seems to be a ramp. The wheelchair is not visible because the view of the President is defended by a line of sailors, perhaps deliberately - but distinctive white hat of Roosevelt is seen slipping beyond the men at a lower level. Roosevelt, at 6-foot-2, was probably higher than the majority of the soldiers.
Although Roosevelt disability was almost a State secret during his presidency, which spanned the great depression and most of World War II, it has become an inspiration to advocates who pressed successfully for a statue of him in his wheelchair to be added to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington.
"For me, the importance of this clip as images of the historic average, is that all reminds us that this President fought the great depression and World War II from a wheelchair."I think it is a tragedy that we have not had many candidates for national Office who use a wheelchair or dog guide or signing, Begovich said in a statement.
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