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Bayfront Park shooting

A heroine in the papers, a carpenter who was not, and thirty-three days to the chair.

Collection: Miami · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Giuseppe Zangara before the Miami court, 1933
Giuseppe Zangara before the Miami court, 1933 · Acme Newspicture, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

They talked about giving Lillian Cross the Medal of Honor for saving Franklin Roosevelt's life. Blaise Picchi, who wrote a book on this shooting, calls that the Cross hoax. On 15 February 1933 Roosevelt, seventeen days from his inauguration, spoke from an open car in this park. Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer, had a revolver from a pawn shop. He was five feet tall and could not see over the crowd.

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Visiting

Bayfront Park, on Biscayne Boulevard, downtown Miami. A public city park. Check the park's calendar: parts close for events.

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