15 feb 1933 año - On February 15, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt is assassinated by Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara.
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On February 15, 1933 Roosevelt was giving an impromptu speech from the back of an open car in the Bayfront Park area of Miami Florida where Guiseppe "Joe" Zangara was living, working the occasional odd job, and living off his savings. Zangara joined the crowd, armed with a .32-caliber pistol he had bought at a local pawn shop. However, being only five feet tall he was unable to see over other people, and had to stand on a wobbly folding metal chair peering over the hat of Lillian Cross to get a clear aim at his target. After the first shot Cross and others grabbed his arm and he fired four more shots wildly.
He missed the mayor Anton Chermak but five other people were hit including FDR. Two days later FDR died from his wounds.
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