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The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara

The Man Who Would Assassinate FDR

The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara( )
Author: Picchi, Blaise
ISBN:978-0-89733-495-2
Publication Date:Feb 2003
Publisher:Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Imprint:Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

In Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer from Italy, fired five pistol shots at the back of President-elect FDR's head from only 25 feet away. While all five rounds missed their target, one of them found Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died of his wound three weeks later. A scant two weeks after that, Zangara was executed in the electric chair. It was the swiftest legal execution in twentieth-century American history. With his death,...
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