"A Conspiracy of Silence, the Health and Death of FDR" with Author Harry S. Goldsmith, MD
Posted by Richard J Garfunkel at 8/13/2008 12:01 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Our guest today is the renowned physician Dr. Harry S. Goldsmith, who is the author of the medical/mystery, “A Conspiracy of Silence, the Health and Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt."
Harry S. Goldsmith, M.D., is a renowned practicing surgeon who has invented many innovative surgical procedures, including those that help victims of spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the Boston University School of Medicine. In his fifty years of practice he has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, served in the United States Army in Korea as a Captain, and is a member of many organizations and societies. He is the author of 225 scholarly medical papers on subjects that vary from cancer to arterial implantation.
Dr. Goldsmith is also a devoted medical history buff and in "A Conspiracy of Silence" takes the reader inside that critical moment in time when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was running for an unprecedented fourth term during World War II. Although there were rumors about his declining health and telling photos of him at Yalta, his true medical condition was kept secret. His Vice-president, Henry Wallace, was popular with the people and a longtime personal friend, but behind the scenes, Democratic insiders, largely unknown to the general public were conspiring to drop him from the ticket. Their heavy-handed manipulation of the 1944 convention ultimately led to the nomination of Harry Truman in his stead. One wonders if they ever realized how their own actions forever changed the face of America.
Goldsmith's interest in FDR's medical records began in 1963. Years later, he started looking for them and found at every twist and turn they had been destroyed or lost. By 1984 he himself was embroiled in a drawn out court battle for a medical document denied to its legal owner. Even with the backing of FDR's son, James, the original document was never released. What was the motivation of all these people, by what right did they take it upon themselves to keep or destroy historical papers even decades after FDR's death?
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Harry S. Goldsmith, M.D., is a renowned practicing surgeon who has invented many innovative surgical procedures, including those that help victims of spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the Boston University School of Medicine. In his fifty years of practice he has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, served in the United States Army in Korea as a Captain, and is a member of many organizations and societies. He is the author of 225 scholarly medical papers on subjects that vary from cancer to arterial implantation.
Dr. Goldsmith is also a devoted medical history buff and in "A Conspiracy of Silence" takes the reader inside that critical moment in time when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was running for an unprecedented fourth term during World War II. Although there were rumors about his declining health and telling photos of him at Yalta, his true medical condition was kept secret. His Vice-president, Henry Wallace, was popular with the people and a longtime personal friend, but behind the scenes, Democratic insiders, largely unknown to the general public were conspiring to drop him from the ticket. Their heavy-handed manipulation of the 1944 convention ultimately led to the nomination of Harry Truman in his stead. One wonders if they ever realized how their own actions forever changed the face of America.
Goldsmith's interest in FDR's medical records began in 1963. Years later, he started looking for them and found at every twist and turn they had been destroyed or lost. By 1984 he himself was embroiled in a drawn out court battle for a medical document denied to its legal owner. Even with the backing of FDR's son, James, the original document was never released. What was the motivation of all these people, by what right did they take it upon themselves to keep or destroy historical papers even decades after FDR's death?
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