John Alferi, Hoover supporter and organizer of the bonus march, 1932

Description: Portrait photograph of John Alferi, taken from the chest up. He wears a suit jacket and patterned tie. He also has two lapel pins on his right jacket collar. A round pin with a star, and a pin that reads "HOOVER."
Photograph appears with the article, "Bonus Marcher Praises Hoover," Los Angeles Times, 03 Nov 1932: A1.
John Alferi started the bonus march movement and led a hundred men from Independence Square in Philadelphia to Washington D.C. in December, 1931. Instead of condemning Hoover however, as many ex-service men did, Alferi saw Hoover as a friend.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: ALFERI, JOHN. BONUS MARCH
Handwritten on negative: John Alferi
Text from newspaper caption: John Alferi
Text on lapel pin: HOOVER

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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