Video: 'The March of the Bonus Army' (Bonus Marchers evicted at 15:57)

(Thursday, July 28, 1932, the U.S. Army attack began at 4:45 p.m. EDT, during the Great Depression) — President Herbert Hoover today ordered the U.S. Army, under General Douglas MacArthur, to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army,” tens of thousands of World War I veterans who, desperate for financial assistance, had come to Washington to lobby Congress to accelerate the year when they would be eligible for their cash bonuses. Continue reading Federal troops forcibly evict ‘Bonus Army’ veterans gathered in Washington to demand immediate payments of cash bonuses 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 28 1932) →