History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1506 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Shots in Miami
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The idea
On February fifteenth, nineteen thirty-three, the bricklayer Giuseppe Zangara fired six shots at the president-elect in Miami's Bayfront Park.
In practice
Roosevelt unhurt, and five people wounded, among them Chicago's mayor, Tony Cermak.
Where people slip
Cermak died nineteen days later, the anchor says. Digital History, which calls Zangara mentally ill, confirms that the mayor was killed.
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