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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220461-31
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL and SD
Year / Date: 1935,1930s
Country: USA
Location: New York City,NYC,Washington, DC
TC Begins: 07:42:16
TC Ends: 07:45:53
Duration: 00:03:37
1935 - Depression, USA: FDR Bonus Veto To Congress, Si. / Huey Long Response, Si. / Father Coughlin Sd. Response. ca 22May35 Intertitle: President Reads Bonus Veto To Joint Congress. 07:42:23 LS Presidential motorcade seen over heads of crowd. CU FDR beside policeman, posing for cameras. 07:42:36 Interior of joint session of Congress, FDR at podium reads speech (MOS). Members listening. MCU Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns, Sr; Vice President John Garner. 07:43:10 Montage: families & individuals listening to radios; intercut w/ Congressmen & Congresswomen; men in home or hospital sitting at long table, MCU pan. 07:44:11 MLS Capitol grounds. 07:44:14 MS FDR w/ Eleanor & security detail leave Capitol in car. 07:44:24 Slug 07:44:26 CU Huey Long speaking / responding to camera (MOS) on Bonus Army Veto. Speaking from desk - says “ These three million soldiers their wives and their children had already figured what each of them would do with the few hundred dollars that each one of them were to get ... pay debts .. buy food .. educate children .. “ Says how cruel it was of FDR to make such an event of Vetoing their bonus. Brief LS of crowded floor of Madison Square Garden (?). 07:45:17 Slug. 07:45:19 Sd. MS Father Coughlin in front of microphones addressing large meeting. SOF: “May I remind our President with all due respect that not one of these soldiers cast a ballot on that fateful Good Friday night in the Spring of 1917 to force a peace loving nation like ours to take up arms for the profiteers and the exploiters of mankind.“ LS Crowd cheering & large American flag waved. Depression; Patman Greenback Bonus Bill Veto; 1930s; WWI Military Veterans; WW1; Unemployed; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.