| Abstract: | ABC 3 hour special re: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, celebrating his one-hundredth birthday
Excerpts of speeches by President Franklin Roosevelt, President John Kennedy, President Herbert Hoover, President Harry S Truman, President Dwight D Eisenhower, President Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, President Gerald Ford, President Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan; footage of Roosevelt's death announcement with voices by Arthur Godfrey, John Daly on April 12, 1945, and the 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940 Democratic National Conventions (DNC); Judy Garland singing Roosevelt song, films: Goldiggers of 1933, American Madness, Grapes of Wrath, Footlight Parade; Roosevelt Inauguration 1933 (the only thing we have to fear is fear itself speech); Fireside Chat 1933; old stock market footage; Harry Hopkins, Dr Frances Townsend, Senator Huey Long, Governor Alf Landon, Senator Arthur Robinson, Wendell Wilke speeches; Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam building footage; 1934 protesting; 1937 Chicago Police Riot over Wagner Act
Reported by David Brinkley, Robert Trout, Richard Threlkeld, Peter Jennings
Interviews with Hamilton Fish, Governor Alf Landon, George W Ball, James MacGregor Burns, Michael Howard, W Averell Harriman, Henry Kissinger, Alger Hiss, Robert Dallek, Adam Ulum, President Ronald Reagan, President Richard Nixon, President Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford, James Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Corcoran, Bennie Cobb, Senator Daniel Moynihan, Studs Terkel, John Houseman, William Leuchtenburg, Douglas Fraser, William Shirer, Sir John Colville, John J McCloy |