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An Assassin from Paterson

February 15. 1933: President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was appearing at an event in Miami, Florida, when a Paterson man, Giuseppe Zangara, attempted to shoot him. Zangara missed Roosevelt but mortally wounded Chicago mayor Anton Cernak, seated next to the president-elect.  Zangara was later executed for the murder of Cernak.

 

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