The Bonus Army camp burns within sight of the U.S. Capitol. Image: Signal Corps/National Archives. Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Pelham D. Glassford was driving south through New Jersey the ...

The Bonus Army protests of 1932 led to the GI Bill more than a decade later. Vietnam veterans not only protested the war in Southeast Asia, but two veterans—Sens. John McCain and John Kerry ...

The Bonus Army became a problem for Hoover and congressional leaders as local authorities grew tired of an estimated 30,000 people camping out in their streets and squatting in city buildings.

Deacon Truax, from Holt, Michigan, is surprised by the return from deployment of his bonus dad, Army Reserve staff sergeant Anthony Almazan.

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.. It involved as many as 30,000 mostly unemployed veterans who converged on Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to ...

The veterans would eventually receive their bonus — which LaLande said ranged from $500 to $600 — four years later in 1936. That would amount to between $11,000 and $13,000 per person in 2023.

In 1932, Hoover's attack on the Bonus Army awakened America to his heartlessness. Will Trump's New York rally do the same? Hiltzik: How Herbert Hoover's blunder got FDR elected - Los Angeles Times ...