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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History – A Strong and Active Faith (1944-1962)

Ken Burns examines Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.. Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6.

roosevelts_eleanor_jfk_spot Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, 1960
Frail and failing but determined to see the war through to victory, FDR wins re-election and begins planning for a peaceful postwar world, but a cerebral hemorrhage kills him at 63. After her husband’s death, Eleanor Roosevelt proves herself a shrewd politician and a skilled negotiator in her own right, as well as a champion of civil rights, civil liberties and the United Nations. When she dies in 1962, she is mourned everywhere as the First Lady of the World.

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History – A Strong and Active Faith (1944-1962), Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6.

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