The Roosevelt Story (1947)

Directors

Lawrence M. Klee

Cast

Ed Begley

The story

The Roosevelt Story opens with newsreel footage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., following his death on April 12, 1945, before tracing his life from his birthplace and family home at Hyde Park, New York. The film covers Roosevelt's education through his graduation from Harvard University and his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt, then follows his entry into politics, his work on Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign, and his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

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