“We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it … Whatever is asked of us, I am sure we can accomplish it. We are the free and unconquerable people of the United States of America.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
Join WNIJ this Sunday evening at 6:00 for "The First Family of Radio: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts."
On this 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we hear from the “first couple” of American radio. From the 1920s through FDR’s fourth term, the president and first lady used this extraordinarily powerful new medium to win elections, combat the Great Depression and rally the nation to fight fascism. Eleanor Roosevelt’s radio work is almost entirely forgotten. But she was a radio star in her own right — as the nation plunged into war, Americans heard first from the first lady, not the president. It speaks to the unprecedented public role Eleanor Roosevelt created for herself, and the remarkable political partnership she had forged with FDR.
