Mysteries in the Archives

1936: President Roosevelt goes back on the campaign trail (7x4)

Air date: Jun 26, 2021

In 1936, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had tried to recover the United States from the 1929 crisis, ran again for a second term. By train and car, he travelled through some thirty states for six months. The tour proved all the more difficult to organize because the president was paraplegic. Are reporters free to film and photograph him during his travels? If he is re-elected, does Roosevelt intend to continue his policy in favor of the poorest?