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Title The plot to overthrow FDR / produced by Weller/Grossman Productions for the History Channel ; executive producers, Abbe Raven, Susan Werbe ; producer/writer, Andrew Corwin.

Publication Info. New York, NY : A & E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [1999]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 973.9 HIS    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD-R.
Performer Narrated by David Ackroyd.
Credits Editor, Andrew Corwin ; original music composed by Michael Andreas ; camera, James Alario ... [et al.].
Note Originally produced as a television program in 1999.
Summary 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. '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, a colorful and outspoken champion of veteran's rights. But Butler was their undoing. After discovering the details of the conspiracy, the horrified general blew the whistle and subjected the outrageous plot to the scrutiny of a Congressional investigation.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Documentary television programs -- United States.
Added Author Raven, Abbe.
Werbe, Susan.
Corwin, Andrew.
Ackroyd, David.
Weller/Grossman Productions.
Arts and Entertainment Network.
New Video Group.
History Channel (Television network)
Added Title Plot to overthrow F.D.R.
In search of history (Television program)
Standard No. 733961736311
Music No. AAE-73631 A & E Television Networks
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