In the early 1950s, polio would strike more than 50,000 people during a single peak epidemic year. Thousands of children were paralyzed. Many died. Many more were unable to breathe without an iron ...

World War II was just weeks from finally being won when, on April 12, 1945, the United States was shocked and saddened by an incomprehensible loss.

The 15th Recital with a Cause, a benefit for Rotary International’s Polio Plus campaign, is scheduled Thursday, May 1, at 7 p ...

Treatments for polio included hot wool and physical therapy. Early on, some doctors would put patients in full-body casts, which could make paralysis permanent. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was ...

He began collecting stamps at the age of 8. They gave him stories from history and also solace during his long recovery from polio. As president, FDR used stamps as a means to help restore the ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...

Hundreds of people spent their Saturday at the Little White House in Warm Springs, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.

“President Roosevelt died.” She was nine ... where he often went for treatment of the polio attack he had suffered in August 1921. A wartime president, he died less than a month before the European ...