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85 Years Ago Last night I just ran out of time to post this blog. I can't seem to slam dunk blogs every 13-15 minutes but this one is an important historical point most may not know. 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. Giuseppe Zangara 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. Anton Cermak 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 personally I 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 5, 1933. |
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15/2/2018 2:08 pm |
In picture #4 Cermak is behind Roosevelt
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15/2/2018 2:09 pm |
#4 was taken just a few minutes before Zangara opened fire.
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15/2/2018 2:10 pm |
Cermak reportedly told Roosevelt that he was glad it was him and not FDR
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15/2/2018 2:12 pm |
There is an old Robert Stack UNTOUCHABLES show that covers the attempted assassination very well.
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Those were terrible and brutal times.
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15/2/2018 8:24 pm |
Those were terrible and brutal times.
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It has recently come to my attention; and I have yet to verify; that the main root cause of the French Revolution was not a famine and starvation, but the fact that the aristocrats, the rich people, paid no taxes. It was middle and low income people who paid all the taxes. This situation had lasted a long time. I guess they had had enough. Excessive taxation on some of society can be dangerous for those at the top; after all the King lost his head; literally.
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15/2/2018 8:47 pm |
It has recently come to my attention; and I have yet to verify; that the main root cause of the French Revolution was not a famine and starvation, but the fact that the aristocrats, the rich people, paid no taxes. It was middle and low income people who paid all the taxes. This situation had lasted a long time. I guess they had had enough. Excessive taxation on some of society can be dangerous for those at the top; after all the King lost his head; literally.
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15/2/2018 9:16 pm |
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I recall reading about this years ago, thanks for the reminder
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15/2/2018 11:06 pm |
I recall reading about this years ago, thanks for the reminder
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