Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara, after his arrest in Miami,
Florida.
Giuseppe Zangara killed the Chicago mayor and
attempted to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt.
Giuseppe Zangara (center), would-be Presidential assassin, is
photographed at the Dade County Jail with Officer "Red" Crews (right)
and Dade Country Sheriff Dan Hardie (left). Zangara would later be
convicted of the muder of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermack and be
executed in Florida's electric chair.
(Photo from Florida State Archives-Florida Memory Project)
Zangara was put to death in the electric chair on March 20, 1933.
After swearing at the witnesses because no cameramen were there to
take photographs, he said "Push the button. Go on and push the
button."
(Photo courtesy of FPC.)
The victim
Mayor Anton Cermak
Anton Cermak with President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
moments before being shot.
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