Peter Cox’s Blog

In 1933, a group of American businessmen (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.  So they instigated a coup.  Their treasonous plottings were aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. Very few people have ever heard of this infamous episode in American history – which I think would make a great movie.  Read more here, listen to a BBC documentary here.