Documentary Film Screening at the FDR Presidential Library: "Rohna Classified" with filmmaker Jack Ballo

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a screening of the 2025 documentary film "Rohna Classified."

Synopsis: Nearly 2,000 American soldiers boarded an overcrowded transport ship, unaware of its non-functioning lifeboats and inadequate lifebelts. When one of the first radio-guided missiles ever used in war strikes, the HMT Rohna sinks, claiming 1,015 lives — the single greatest loss of life at sea by enemy action in U.S. history. The government deflected responsibility by declaring the World War II disaster classified while ordering all survivors to remain silent. The casualty families were stonewalled, and most of them went to their own graves never knowing what happened; their boys just never came home. 

Click here to complete the required registration. The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center.