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World Service,14 Feb 2002,24 mins

The Bonus Army March

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A quarter of the population was unemployed during the 1930s Depression in USA. A look at the 20,000 strong Bonus Army March, led by Walter W. Waters, a group of Army veterans who marched on Washington.

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