News Bulletin – MBS (1:04)
CBS News – Don Fisher (21:30)
NBC Blue News (13:51)
WNYC – Mayor La Guardia (9:54)
CBS – Bill Henry on Presidential succession (11:40)
Click on the links above to hear the initial reports of the President’s death.
I read the account of a US navy ship then at sea:
When they got the news of FDR’s death via radio, the entire crew of the ship exploded with raucous cheering and deliriously happy laughter.
Really amazing.
He should have died at the hands of Giuseppe Zangara.
America would be a better place today.
Why would Hillary pick this date to announce her candidacy? Another death in the Democrat party?
I was almost five years old when the announcement of Roosevelt’s death came across the radio in Dallas. I was playing with toys in the bedroom while my folks were socializing with some friends in our kitchen.
Somehow I knew that it was an important announcement and I went into the kitchen and told them about it. They didn’t believe me at first, but finally listened to the radio and heard the repeating announcements and follow ups. Their grieving reaction cemented the moment in my mind forever.
FDR’s longtime mistress, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, was with him in Warm Springs, Georgia, when he died of a stroke, having been given access by Anna, FDR’s daughter, without her mother’s knowledge. Afterwards, Anna and Lucy hightailed it out of Warm Springs; however Eleanor and media elitists found out, but the public was not informed for many years.
Immorality, infidelity, double-crossing, betrayal, scandal, death, and a fifth-column leftist media! — An appropriate time for HelLIARy to announce her demonic scheme.
Hitler died 18 days later.
Japanese internment camps
Packing the Supreme Court
IRS political audits against enemy media
80+% top marginal tax rate
Gold confiscation
Election fraud via union bullying
Shut down immigration for German Jews
Broke with tradition and ran for 3rd term.
The guy was a vindictive Machiavellian dictator. There’s nothing special, honorable or worthy about that.
The last recording listed is very interesting for a number of reasons, but primarily because they point out that the nation would now have no vice-president until the next election. Few seem to know it, but the founders included no provision for replacing a VP. Of course, that has since been remedied by constitutional amendment.
FDR was such a beloved and great president we passed a constitutional amendment to ensure there were no more 4 termers.
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My great aunt worked in the government. The buildings emptied out for the funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of her cow-orkers saw her there, and said: “What are YOU doing here?” She said: “I want to be sure he’s really dead!”
FDR is dead?