Part nine of a 12-part documentary series produced by the American Broadcasting Company and anchored by Peter Jennings.
Federal troops were on alert on the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration in March of 1933, to prevent the violence many anticipated. FDR's calm reassurances saved that day, but most of his efforts over the following years failed miserably. The real story of those desperate years paints a picture of America rarely seen or told - America on the edge of chaos: Bank riots when depositors lost everything, interment camps for workers who defied their bosses, and courthouses ransacked by farmers who had their farms foreclosed. In the midst of this, some believed the man in the wheelchair with the soothing voice was the greatest leader of the century; others believed him to be a dangerous radical undermining basic American values, but everyone could see he was restructuring the basic workings of America.

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