Giuseppe Zangara

Assassanation
Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian immigrant who attempted to assassanate then President Elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt and succsesfully killed then Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak in Miami, Florida on Febuary 15th 1933. Zangara had joined a crowd where FDR was making a speech. He was only 5 foot, so he had to stand on a wobbly metal folding chair where he yelled "Too many people are starving!" and he began to shoot. After the first shot many bodyguards and spectators trired to push Zangara off the chair. He shot 4 more shots wildly, hitting three people, and killing one. The one killed was Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, and FDR was unharmed. He was sentenced to death via electric chair.

Motive
Like Leon Czolgosz, Giuseppe Zangara hated the rich and powerful, he didn't hate FDR personally. He also stated he had just the worst stomach ache, and that pushed him over the edge. However people suspect that his intended target was Cermak all along, beliving he had ties to the Chicago Mob, however there is no evidence to support this theory.