Franklin Roosevelt died of cancer:
Now, 65 years on, a new book has claimed that President Roosevelt died of cancer -- in fact he suffered from melanoma, which spread to his brain and abdomen, and that he died of a brain tumour, the 'New York Post' reported.
Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, 94, a revered historian of life in the South and the African-American experience, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Duke University's hospital in Durham.