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Giuseppe Zangara (September 7, 1900 – March 20, 1933) was an Italian immigrant and naturalized United States citizen who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inauguration.
Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian immigrant who tried to assassinate President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, but missed and killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak instead. He was executed by electric chair one month later, after confessing to four counts of attempted murder.
Nov 13, 2020 · On Feb. 20, Zangara pleaded guilty to attempted murder, and a judge sentenced him to 80 years in jail. As he was leaving the courtroom, he said: “Oh, judge, don’t be stingy. Give me a hundred ...
- Ronald G. Shafer
Feb 15, 2019 · As FDR and the dignitaries talked, Giuseppe Zangara, an alienated Italian immigrant, stood about twenty-five feet away—he later related that the crowd was too thick to get closer to Roosevelt—when he opened fire with a pistol in the direction of FDR’s car.
Giuseppe 'Joe' Zangara was a murderer who was executed for assassinating Anton Cermak. Check out this biography to know about his birthday, childhood, family life, crimes and other facts about him.
Giuseppe Zangara. Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park. Instead, he mortally wounds Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak. In perhaps one of the shortest periods of time between crime and execution (32 days), Zangara is executed on March 20, 1933 in Florida's electric chair.
Nov 16, 2009 · 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.
