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OnDaFence 36H/44H
44267 messages
15/2/2018 14h06

Dernière Consultation:
15/2/2018 23h06

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.



OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 14h08

In picture #4 Cermak is behind Roosevelt


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 14h09

#4 was taken just a few minutes before Zangara opened fire.


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 14h10

Cermak reportedly told Roosevelt that he was glad it was him and not FDR


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 14h12

There is an old Robert Stack UNTOUCHABLES show that covers the attempted assassination very well.


jrodd 65H
4396 messages
15/2/2018 20h14

Those were terrible and brutal times.


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 20h24

    Citer jrodd:
    Those were terrible and brutal times.
Worst of all many of the cops and politicians were on the take too. Honest ones got killed.


99curious69 73H
641 messages
15/2/2018 20h24

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.


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 20h47

    Citer 99curious69:
    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.
The famine exacerbated the already lop sided system of taxation coupled with the extravagances of the aristocracy flaunting great wealth in the faces of those who can barely put food on the table and clothes on their backs is a fast track to an uproar.


Hungr4Yungr 75H
5766 messages
15/2/2018 20h58


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 21h16


mral65 58H
366 messages
15/2/2018 21h59

I recall reading about this years ago, thanks for the reminder


OnDaFence 36H/44H

15/2/2018 23h06

    Citer mral65:
    I recall reading about this years ago, thanks for the reminder
We dug out the old Untouchables and watched it..... Just an interesting point of history.