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EX500rider

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6. "Bonus Army WWWI Veterans Killed by General MacArthur, Major Patton in Washington"

Reply to marble falls (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 1, 2023, 02:52 PM

Dec 2023

Not really, the shooting was by a DC Police officer and happened before the Army intervention.

On July 28, under prodding from President Herbert Hoover, the D.C. Commissioners ordered Pelham D. Glassford to clear their buildings, rather than letting the protesters drift away as he had previously recommended. When the veterans rioted, an officer (George Shinault) drew his revolver and shot at the veterans, two of whom, William Hushka and Eric Carlson, died later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

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