This my first post. As I mentioned I am very interested in Italian Cards Games, and the Chicago –Washington D.C. connection.
I asked if anyone had ever heard of Giuseppe Zangara. Here is a little bit about him.The American People were told it was the attempted assassination of the then President Elect of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The shooting occurred on February 15, 1933, at a political rally in Bayfront Park, Miami, Florida. The would-be assassin: Giuseppe Zangara from Calabria, by way of New Jersey and Chicago.
Giuseppe Zangara was convicted of trying to assassinate the president elect and was sentenced to eighty plus years in prison. The Mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, was also at the rally that night. To look at pictures of Roosevelt and Cermak together you would have thought they were buddies from way back. The Democratic Convention to decide who would get the Presidential Nomination had been held in Chicago. Cermak opposed the nomination of Roosevelt. A deal was made. Cermak went along bringing the union vote with him.
Cermak was the guy who got shot that night. He died in the hospital several weeks later. Zangara was sent to the electric chair after Cermak died.
Giuseppe Zangara was executed on March 20th, just thirty four days after the shooting, that’s a record from capture, to trail, to sentence, to execution, that still stands. Americans were told Zangara was sent to the electric chair because one of the shots he fired at Roosevelt hit Cermak and that Cermak died as a result of that wound.
It is undisputed that Cermak did not die from the gunshot wound he suffered that night. There is a lot more I can tell you about this and the parallels to the JKF shooting are uncanny.
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