The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was ... seemed to have boundless energy, though polio had left him unable to walk on his own.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a ...

1st June 1928: American statesman Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945 ... to Warm Springs in the 1920s looking for a cure for his polio in the natural hot springs. President and Mrs. Roosevelt ...

80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt's death ... of Roosevelt's relationship with Warm Springs, where he'd found relief from polio in the town's namesake therapeutic waters.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States ... where he often went for treatment of the polio attack he had suffered in August 1921. A wartime president, he died less than a ...