4 good links

  1. Giuseppe Zangara

    Good briefing on his life and crime, from the education site Spartacus

  2. Giuseppe Zangara

    A fairly deep biography of Zangara from a Chicago historical society

  3. FBI Files on Giuseppe Zangara

    Archive of photocopies of the FBI file

  4. American Mafia

    Semi-reliable history of the shooting, playing up the alleged mob connection

Giuseppe Zangara Biography

Giuseppe Zangara tried to shoot Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on 15 February 1933 -- before Roosevelt even took office as president. A bricklayer, Zangara apparently was angry at Roosevelt (and his predecessor, Herbert Hoover) over poor economic conditions amid the Great Depression. Zangara missed the president-elect but did hit five other people including Chicago mayor Anton Cermak. Cermak later died, and Zangara was swiftly convicted of murder and executed in the electric chair.

Extra credit:

Zangara is also known as Joseph Zangara... Zangara was about five feet tall and so had to stand on a chair to get his shot at FDR. According to some accounts, his aim was thrown off when the chair wobbled; other say a local woman grabbed Zangara's arm.. Roosevelt was inaugurated on 4 March 1933, and Cermak died two days later... His last words before his execution were reportedly "Adios to the world!"

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