On February 15, 1933, a deranged, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts “Too many people are starving!” and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt had just delivered a speech in Miami’s Bayfront Park from the back seat of his open touring car when Zangara opened fire with six rounds. Five people were hit. The president escaped injury but the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, who was also in attendance, received a mortal stomach wound in the attack.
Several men tackled the assailant and might have beaten him to death if Roosevelt had not intervened, telling the crowd to leave justice to the authorities. Zangara later claimed I don’t hate Mr. Roosevelt personallyI hate all officials and anyone who is rich. He also told the FBI that chronic stomach pain led to his action: Since my stomach hurt I want to make even with the capitalists by kill the president. My stomach hurt long time [sic].
Zangara’s extreme action reflected the anger and frustration felt among many working Americans during the Great Depression. At the time of the shooting, Roosevelt was still only the president-elect and had yet to be sworn in. His policies remained untested, but reports of Roosevelt’s composure during the assassination attempt filled the following day’s newspapers and did much to enforce Roosevelt’s public image as a strong leader.
Unsubstantiated reports later claimed that Zangara’s real target had been Cermak and hinted at Zangara’s connection to organized crime in Chicago. Zangara was initially tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years in prison, but when Mayor Cermak later died of his wounds, Zangara was retried and sentenced to death. Zangara died on the electric chair on March 20, 1933.
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Piss poor marksmanship.
Anyone who cant accurately shoot a democrat has earned their fate.
Gun control… it’s all in the breathing & trigger squeeze.
Does anyone remember before Barky the magic negro took office the glowing media and grainy pictures of him and big Mike on the beach? Sure seems like the string pullers love to level set the narrative before one of their puppets takes office.
C_A
Again, I will say, that while wishing this guy had been an accurate shooter, it doesn’t change the truth of the matter that FDR was a SYMPTOM of our totally screwed up country at the time. Who is to say that John Nance Garner (his VP at the time) would not have been just as horrible, just as much of a tool of the banksters, Wall Street, the ruling elite, etc. and wouldn’t have done as bad a job at screwing up our future as FDR? Remember, while much of his agenda was founded on Executive Order, and struck down as Unconstitutional, the worst stuff was passed by the useless Congress and remains on the book. But one can dream.
Hey, Mr: in case you don’t know of Wayne Jett, he makes an excellent case that FDR was an SOB above and beyond his common-knowledge SOB’ery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=djJTbrF3Rx0&feature=emb_logo
Oh, I have no doubt that FDR was among the worst of the worst that humanity has ever had to deal with….all glossed over and covered up so the general public remains ignorant. His actions related to Japan and the Pearl Harbor attack clearly point in that direction. But thanks for the video.
Also Niebo, Wayne Jett’s excellent (and masterfully
detailed) book The Fruits of Graft — Great
Depressions Then and Now.
It is a detailed tome…I have been plowing through it off and on for months.