I found it interesting that a BBC channel chose, with no external follow up reporting from the rest of the media, to broadcast the following on radio, just last week. I post this here because it is support for the coverage of this historic (and buried....) event that I posted about in <a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpost.php?p=2188768&postcount=22">post #22</a>, on the first page of this thread. I don't fully understand it's implications, but the congressional hearings that followed, produced a report that was hidden for the next four or five decades, and the son and grandson of one of the conspirators became US presidents, the latter bringing about more "fascist like" "reform", in just a few years, than I could ever have imagined:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...20070723.shtml
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The award-winning investigative series returns, in which Mike Thomson takes a document as a starting-point to shed new light on past events.
The Whitehouse Coup
Monday 23 July 2007
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The White House behind security bars
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen
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The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
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History Channel video:
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http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle13844.htm
America's Hidden History
The Plot To Overthrow FDR
The Plot To Overthrow FDR reveals how, inspired by political trends in Germany and Italy, this group conceived of a plan to either overthrow the newly-elected president or force him to take orders from them. They envisioned a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans as the force to intimidate the government. The man they chose to inspire and lead this veteran's army was retired Marine General Smedley D. Butler
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the Presidency in 1932, many Americans looked to his bold New Deal plans as the way out of the dark days of the Depression. But a powerful group of financiers and industrialists saw his economic policies as a threat.
E-Book Available On This Topic - The Plot To Seize The White House - By Jules Archer
07/04/06 Runtime 43 Minutes
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It looks like it "really happened".....and that there were no consequences to the perpetrators...when it failed....and that it has been deliberately "covered up". In view of the recent American experience under the leadership of this US president, is now not the time to learn about it, react to it, talk about it, attempt to understand why there was no criminal investigation, or even a negative impact to the reputations of these men who worked with "foreign agents", against the US government? Isn't the Bush "drive" to eliminate and evade FISA restrictions, supposed to be about making it easier to investigate people like....his own grandfather.....Prescott Bush?