Shown here is Dr. Ed Beardsley, a retired college professor who is portraying the thirty-second president of the United States addressing a “news conference” of an appreciative audience at the South Carolina State Museum recently. “The President” delivered a 30-minute description of the D-Day operation, including several occasions during the invasion when the Allies came perilously close to being repulsed, which would have severely hampered the efforts to defeat Nazi Germany. He is flanked by flags of the United States and Great Britain, while in the background is a map of the Normandy beachheads. After the presentation he fielded questions from the “reporters” present. On April 16 Dr. Beardsley was joined by distinguished British actor

Howard Burnham as Winston Churchill to share their thoughts on their personal friendship, WW II and D-Day. Click the NEXT button below for a page about that event.

Some will be a bit shocked by this depiction of the president smoking while others may be taken aback by seeing him in a wheelchair with leg braces on. However, these are historical facts and Dr. Beardsley’s characterization is a faithful representation of those facts.