Attempt to Overthrow the U.S. Government in 1930s
The Plot to Overthrow FDR
This Documentary from The History Channel documents the plot to overthrow, by a military coup, FDR. Big businesses asked Smedley Butler (A two star General and a two time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient) to lead a 500,000 man army to do this.
Corporate Coup in the U.S.
Scene from the 2003 documentary, The Corporation, about an attempted coup by industrialists (corporations) to overthrow president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US Government during the 1930's.
Major General of the Marine Corps, Smedley Butler, was to lead the coup. Smedley, tired of being what he felt was a gangster for capitalism, balked and reported his findings to Congress.
