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Watch Rare Footage of FDR Walking

The Pennsylvania State Archives has released video of FDR walking at a baseball game in 1937. It's only the second known video of him walking.
New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, holding the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, awarded him during ceremonies on July 21, 1929 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, holding the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, awarded him during ceremonies on July 21, 1929 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.AP, file

We're getting an extremely rare look at President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking. The Pennsylvania State Archives released an eight-second video of him yesterday. It’s from the summer of 1937 and shows President Roosevelt walking with an assistant as he arrived to watch an all-star baseball game in Philadelphia. It’s one of only two known clips of the president walking. FDR was diagnosed with polio in 1921 and tried his best to hide his disability from the public.