Letter regarding the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945 April 15.

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Letter regarding the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945 April 15.

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The collection consists of a five-page letter written by Hazel Stephens and Betty Brown, physical therapists at Warm Springs. The letter gives an account of events from the arrival of the President on March 30 to the departure of the train bearing his casket on April 13. Stephens and Brown also describe a memorial service on April 15 at the Warm Springs Chapel and state their belief that the Little White House would someday be a national shrine.

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Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.)

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Stephens, Hazel.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933-1945. He died at Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12, 1945. Roosevelt first came to Warm Springs in 1924 to visit the heated springs as treatment for his polio. He built a small cottage there in 1932 which was later known as the Little White House. From the description of Letter regarding the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945 April 15. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 472453...

Brown, Betty Byers

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...