Did FDR Tell People He 'Murdered His Grandmother' To See if They Were Listening?

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Did FDR Tell People He 'Murdered His Grandmother' To See if They Were Listening?
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✅ True. To check if people were listening to him at a large social function, FDR supposedly told people that he had murdered his grandmother.

The earliest reference to the FDR anecdote that Snopes can find in media reports stems from coverage of Smith's book, based on a search of Newspapers.com. For example, a Nov. 18, 1953Smith recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt was a joker of sorts and once decided to test a theory that people at social affairs never hear the polite words required under certain circumstances.

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