Video: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Liberation of Rome'

(Monday, June 5, 1944, 8:30 p.m. Eastern War Time (EWT); during the Italian Campaign of World War II) — In a broadcast to the nation, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt hailed tonight the capture of Rome, first of the three major Axis capitals to fall, as a great achievement on the road toward total conquest of the Axis.

Fireside Chat On The Fall Of Rome (June 5th 1944)'

Rome, he said, marked “one up and two to go.”