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One of the last photographs taken of 63 year old FDR before he died from cyanide poisoning. His assassin was described as "an American citizen, but a die-hard Nazi", had been planted in FDR's vacation hideaway in Georgia.
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Mrs. Lucy Rutherfurd, reported to be FDR's lover for 25 years, was once Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary. Lucy was with FDR at Warm Springs when he died.
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First lady Eleanor Roosevelt (second from left) and her lover for eight years, UPI reporter Lorena Hickok (on right) with young friends. Hickok was described as a first rate reporter who smoked cigars and dressed like a police matron.
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FDR's cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was where his security was most lax. It was a place where his family knew they were not welcome.
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Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of Germany's secret service. He directed a massive espionage and sabotage campaign against the United States. A Justice Department report stated over 4000 proven cases of enemy-directed sabotage occurred in the U.S. between 1940 until the end of WWII.
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Reformed Nazi Ernst Kuhne, who in 1982 revealed President Roosevelt had been assassinated. At the end of WWII he met the Nazi agents who engineered FDR's murder.
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Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Germany's Gestapo and Adolph Hitler who ordered FDR's death: "Eliminate Roorevelt, once and for all". Himmler turned the mission over to AMT-4, the assassination branch of the Gestapo.
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