Economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry farmers protested, demanding food, and robberies increased dramatically. By 1932, while "Pretty Boy" Floyd was  robbing banks across Oklahoma, the United States Army was called in to defend the nation's capital from veterans who were demanding that President Hoover and Congress pay a bonus for their service in World War I. The program ends with Franklin Roosevelt's landslide election to the Presidency.