Bonus Marchers on the Capitol Steps
July 28, 1932 Federal troops, under command of General Douglas MacArthur, forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Expeditionary Force,” or Bonus Army. They were World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand money they had been promised but weren't scheduled to receive until 1945. Most of the marchers were unemployed veterans in desperate financial straits during the Great Depression........Rest Here
From Wikipedia
The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers — 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932....................
Pres. Lyndon Johnson: Vietnam
July 28, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson ordered 50,000 troops to Vietnam to join the 75,000 already there. By the end of the year 180,000 U.S. troops will have been sent to Vietnam; in 1966 the figure doubled. In addition to countless Vietnamese deaths, close to 1900 Americans were killed in 1965; the following year the number more than tripled. President Johnson explained: “We intend to convince the communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms or by superior power.”
Part of a Tom Paxton’s anti-Vietnam-war song, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Have no fear of escalation
I am trying everyone to please
Though it isn’t really
war
We’re sending fifty thousand more
To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese
Full lyrics of the song
“Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation” written and performed by Tom Paxton (1965)
Fourteenth Amendment
July 28, 1868
Passed in the wake of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process, equal protection of the law, and full citizenship to all males over 21, including former slaves, went into effect.Booklet {PDF} on the 14th Amendment from the Damon Keith Collection of African-American Legal History at Wayne State University Law School.
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