This film, hosted by author and historian Douglas Brinkley, explores the architectural gem honoring Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech that changed history. On its first anniversary, take a walk through the park that was shaped by the architect Louis I. Kahn, one of the masters of 20th century architecture
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 | Mrs. FDR Jr. at the construction site of Four Freedoms Park witnessing the first granite block from North Carolina being placed in the park. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Mrs. FDR Jr. at the construction site of Four Freedoms Park witnessing the first granite block from North Carolina being placed in the park. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Mrs. FDR Jr. at the construction site of Four Freedoms Park witnessing the first granite block from North Carolina being placed in the park. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | View of Four Freedoms Park through the Littleleaf linden trees. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | View of Four Freedoms Park through the Littleleaf linden trees. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | A Louis Kahn sketch of Four Freedoms Park (colored Pencil on yellow trace, circa 1973). Photo Credit: ©University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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 | A Louis Kahn sketch of Four Freedoms Park (colored Pencil on yellow trace, circa 1973). Photo Credit: ©University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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 | Stone setters placing the 36 ton granite blocks in the parks. Photo Credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Stone setters placing the 36 ton granite blocks in the parks. Photo Credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | View of the park being constructed on June 8, 2012. Photo Credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | View of the park being constructed on June 8, 2012. Photo Credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | FDR bust with the view of the skyline of New York City behind it. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | FDR bust with the view of the skyline of New York City behind it. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | FDR Bust through the Littleleaf linden trees surrounded by water. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | FDR Bust through the Littleleaf linden trees surrounded by water. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | Workers lay down the foundation at the tip of Roosevelt Island which is below sea level. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Workers lay down the foundation at the tip of Roosevelt Island which is below sea level. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Workers lay down the foundation at the tip of Roosevelt Island which is below sea level. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | A mold of the FDR Bust to be put in the Four Freedoms Park being made. Photo Credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Gina Pollara at the construction site with the crew. Photo Credit:
©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Gina Pollara at the construction site with the crew. Photo Credit:
©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | The etching of the Four Freedoms pronounced by FDR in the 1941 State of the Union. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | Nathaniel Kahn, the son of the architect Louis Kahn who designed the Four Freedoms Park. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | Nathaniel Kahn, the son of the architect Louis Kahn who designed the Four Freedoms Park. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | Nathaniel Kahn, the son of the architect Louis Kahn who designed the Four Freedoms Park. Photo Credit: ©Channel Thirteen LLC
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 | The granite blocks used to construct the room being brought up the river on a barge to the island. Photo credit: ©Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
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 | Ambassador vanden Heuvel at Four Freedoms Park. Photo credit: ©Gina Pollara
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 | Ambassador vanden Heuvel at Four Freedoms Park. Photo credit: ©Gina Pollara
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 | Ambassador vanden Heuvel at Four Freedoms Park. Photo credit: ©Gina Pollara
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