A biography of the life and times of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Part 2
United States soldiers in military training (Selective Service act, mobilization of the armed forces). Props are used in lieu of real weapons (balsa wood field machine guns, cardboard mortars and trucks labeled "tank").
Several protesters picketing outside the White House. Picketers and signs; both isolationists and interventionists are here protesting one another.
President Franklin D Roosevelt in Jeep with Army officers.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull arriving at the White House, entering. Japanese Ambassador Nomura. Japanese Ambassador Nomura and envoy Subaro Kurusu
President Franklin D Roosevelt writing at his desk.
President Franklin D Roosevelt and his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in a dark office.
President Franklin D Roosevelt inspecting Army troops while riding in Jeep.
November 26, 1941. Japanese Ambassador Nomura and envoy Subaro Kurusu.
December 7, 1941. Car speeding up to the White House. Secretary of State Cordell Hull exiting car after attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1941. Reporters and crowds gathered across the street of the Capitol Building awaiting word from President Franklin D Roosevelt.
December 8, 1941. President Franklin D Roosevelt speaking to Joint Session of Congress I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
US soldiers passing the camera, rifles with bayonets shoulder bound. Soldiers mobilize as the US enters the war effort: tanks, soldiers, GI deployment, male and female war workers.
President Franklin D Roosevelt touring a plane factory, an employee presenting with a scale model of a USAAF fighter bomber.
November 1943. Tehran conference. Franklin D Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill posing for camera, chatting.