| ROOSEVELT “ROUGHS IT” President Roosevelt visits men in a CCC Camp in Virginia and takes a meal with the men. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5506 |
| Catalog #: | 52951 | |
| Clip Number: | 52951-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 33/69 | |
| Timecode: | 01:10:40 - 01:11:38 | |
| Location: | Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, United States. | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENVIRONMENT: Conservation GREAT DEPRESSION: Recovery LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Virginia PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) | |
| Description: | “America. Roosevelt ‘Roughs It’. ‘Franklin D...’ the most popular man in America today - in midst of N.R.A. Campaign, makes informal visit to ‘CC Camps’ in Shenandoah Valley.” The NRA or National Recovery Agency was part of FDR's "New Deal," passed in June 1933 (and overturned by the Supreme Court in 1935). The CCC was the Civilian Conservation Corps, organized in 1933 to provide jobs to mostly unmarried young men doing conservation work, including park maintenance, building flood barriers, etc. Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, United States of America (USA). Shots of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting at outdoor table eating meal with group of young men. FDR makes speech about CCC camps. He jokes that he would like to take time off and spend it at one of the Camps but that he’d put on weight. | |
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