Routing a Ragtag ArmyThe president responded promptly.
"You will have United States troops proceed immediately to the scene of the disorder," Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley told Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a memo dated 2:55 p.m. July 28, 1932. "Surround the affected area and clear it without delay."
About two hours later, four troops of cavalry, four companies of infantry, a mounted machine gun squadron and six whippet tanks lined up on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Some of America's greatest military minds were on hand. MacArthur, the commander, was there with Maj. Dwight D. Eisenhower and one of his officers, George S. Patton Jr.
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The press ran a list of casualties the next day that included one marcher who was shot to death by police and 26 veterans, 15 residents, 11 police officers, five soldiers and one news photographer who had been hospitalized.
There you go, this says only one bonus marcher was shot to death. Now you can excuse the whole thing and call it a shining example of Presidential-Federal authority.
Thank you for confirming what I've been saying.
This reference you cite actually states only one man was killed by police, rather than two.
When I first looked in to this many years ago, I found the book:
B.E.F.: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army (Amazon link)
by Walter W. Waters (Wikipedia entry for Waters)
BEF stands for Bonus Expeditionary Force and Waters was one of the organizers.
His book was published in 1933 and did not make any claims of the Army firing on them.
There's no reason for your attitude.