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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

BONUS ARMY March of 1932: Ohio v. The World Featuring Bruce Carlson of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We join Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast once again! and Author Paul Dickson (https://www.amazon.com/Bonus-Army-American-Epic/dp/0802714404) to discuss the Bonus Army march of veterans seeking compensation during the Great Depression, and the horrible way they were treated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3

Now here's your host, Alex Hastie.

1:09.6

Welcome back, everybody.

1:11.1

It's season nine of Ohio versus the world.

1:13.5

Today we're talking about the Bonus Army,

1:15.2

a group of World War I veterans and their families

1:17.4

that marched on Washington in the summer of 1932

1:20.4

at the absolute bottom, the nadir of the Great Depression.

1:24.5

Tens of thousands descended on the Capitol,

1:26.5

set up a huge camp across the

1:27.8

Anacoster River from Capitol Hill in an effort to receive their promised service bonus early from Congress.

1:33.8

We'll go inside the camp, inside the movement, and this fiery, tragic end of the bonus army, what they

1:39.2

called the bonus expeditionary force. Their movement was ended at the end of a rifle by the U.S. Army and General

1:45.6

Douglas MacArthur. We'll study just how bad the Depression got during President Hoover's

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