This Week's Best Old Photos

FDR, the angler. The wounded of Antietam. Birmingham Civil Rights protests. Charlie Chaplin.

President Franklin Roosevelt took a three-week trip to the Pacific Coast states in August 1944 that included a few days in the Aleutian Islands. Above, Roosevelt fishes for trout on Buskin Lake, Kodiak Island.

Roosevelt’s visit to military installations in the Aleutians got a lot of press when Republicans later claimed that he had dispatched a Navy des…