It had been two nights since President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt had spoken at Miami’s Bayfront Park, where dozens witnessed Giuseppe Zangara stand on a chair, pull out a .38-caliber pistol and start shooting.
None of the five bullets hit his intended target 15 feet away, but they tore into Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. Other victims included Miami residents Mabel Jenkins Gill and Russell
Caldwell, Newark’s Margaret Kruis and retired New York police detective William Sinnott, who served as Roosevelt’s bodyguard back home and was vacationing in Miami.
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