Policemen rush to contain the resistance by the Bonus Marchers, a group of demonstrators made up of 17 000 United States World War I veterans demanding early cash redemption of their service certificates during the Great Depression. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators throw smoke bombs and fight with police in their trashed Hooverville camp on the Anacostia Flats (now Section C of Anacostia Park in Washington DC). Bonus Expeditionary Force Hooverville camp in flames during confrontation with army sent by General Douglas MacArthur. American soldiers confronting the Bonus Marchers in Anacostia Park. Remnants of Bonus Army camp in smoke. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators cover faces to protect themselves from smoke. Bonus camp in flames, with the United States Capitol dome in the background.
1932 Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Democratic supporters carry signs with the names of US states and territories such as Mississippi, Florida and South Carolina. Keynote speaker Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky speaks to the crowd, calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, also known as the Prohibition. View of crowd in 1932 Democratic Party National Convention. William Gibbs McAdoo, a senatorial candidate of the Democratic Party for California, speaks to the crowd, nominating Franklin Roosevelt as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate with the words, "he's entitled to the nomination" during the Democratic Party National Convention. Democratic Party National Convention crowd cheering as parabolic microphones turn to catch audio. Crowds cheer during the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the 1932 United States presidential elections.
A long line of unemployed men and women waiting for relief assistance outside a charity in America during the Great Depression. A breadline outside a charity that reaches to another block. Hungry, unemployed men waiting for free food from charity. A jobless African American man talking to a charity worker. Long breadline outside charity. Unemployed men enter a charity to receive food and other necessities. Unemployed men look for jobs posted in newspaper together. Unemployed women sells baked goods on the street. Unemployed man looks for a job in newspaper while sitting in bench at a park. Homeless, unemployed man smokes cigarette while sitting in bench with his luggage. Unemployed men and women receive bread and necessities from charity. Policeman and volunteers distribute food packs to unemployed men and women affected by the Great Depression.
A Quaker Evangelist, Miss George Nye, from Madison, Wisconsin speaks out for the Prohibitionist Party against American society’s permissiveness towards alcohol in a fiery tone. “The Prohibition Party has always fed the goat on pure green grass and cold water. And now my slogan is, ‘Fire, fire, fire, I smell smoke. Get on the water wagon, hitch the hoes to the goat!’” she ends her theatrical statement. She is probably speaking outside the 1932 Prohibition Party Convention, Indianapolis, July 6, 1932
View of Harvard University. View of statue of Harvard university founder, John Harvard. View of pages of newspapers College Daily and the Harvard Crimson, newspapers Franklin Roosevelt served as editor for during his college years. Franklin Roosevelt’s name in paperwork associated with the Harvard Crimson. View of Charles river in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Railroad train running beside the Charles river, full of students from Harvard and Yale. Students from Harvard and Yale Universities watch the annual boating duels on the Charles River between their universities. View of locomotive train full of Harvard and Yale students running. Regatta in the Charles River. View of a busy street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A stadium with many football game spectators. Male cheerleader uses Yale Megaphone before football game. Football between Harvard and Yale. Crowd in stadium forms an “H”. Exhausted football players in field after match. Image of the Senior Year Group Graduation photo from Franklin Roosevelt’s class.
Intertitle saying “1912”. United States Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson delivers a campaign speech. Woodrow Wilson’s opponent, former United States President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a speech. Intertitle saying “1913”. Outgoing United States President William Howard Taft shakes hands with United States President-elect Woodrow Wilson. United States President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration at the United States Capitol.
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