A frayed original front page of The Miami Herald on the day after the assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara on FDR at Miami’s Bayfront Park on Feb. 14, 1933. Miami Herald File Let’s go back to ...

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - Giuseppe Zangara, the bricklayer who shot at the president-elect, told this story of his crime, police said: "I have hated presidents and kings since I was a boy. I ...

BETWEEN the Presidential elec-tion of November 8, 1932, and the inauguration on March 4, 1933, while the country was waiting perhaps as impatiently as it has ever waited for an old administration to ...

In February 1933, Giuseppe Zangara tried to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt during a political rally in Miami. Instead, his shots hit five bystanders, including Anton J. Cermak, the mayor ...

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - The courage of one small woman, who pitted her strength against the determination of a crazed gunman, probably saved President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from injury ...