Troops and police use heavy handed tactics to break up demonstrations by US war veterans.
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- Film ID:
- 679.35
- Media URN:
- 5096
- Group:
- Pathe newsreels
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 08/08/1932
- Sound:
- Mute
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:49:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:52:45:00 / 01:54:34:00
- Canister:
- 32/63
marklp2 says
US Congress voted a bonus for US WWI Veterans payable in 1945. So called Bonus Marchers went to Washington DC asking for early payment of Bonus. Pres. Hoover called on Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur to evict the Bonus Marchers from their campsites. Later on after election of Franklin D. Roosevelt a second group of Bonus Marchers came to Washington. Roosevelt sent his wife Eleanor to speak to them and offered them places in the new Civilian Conservation Corps. Congress paid the bonus early in 1936.