“The FDR government should`ve been overthrown in a coup d`etat in 1935.”
Guiseppe Zangara came within a hair`s breadth of changing history when he attempted to take out FDR in Chicago in February 1933. When bumped by an onlooker, he inadvertantly capped Chicago mayor Anton Cermak instead.
One can only imagine how different things could`ve been.
That’s not quite the full story.
Cermak, known by the sobriquet “Ten-Percent Tony” was putting the squeeze on the Chicago mob. The mob’s then-leader Frank Nitti decided it was time for the greedy Cermak to go.
Funny thing about Zangara....he had plenty of mob contacts and friends both in the US and the old country. Its come out that Zangara actually may have worked for Albert Anastasia’s and Lepke Buchalter’s “Murder Inc.”, an arm of the national syndicate someone like Nitti might turn to instead of using his own people.
The whole crazy act, (long questioned by psychiatrists), and the tinfoil-hat story about wanting to kill Roosevelt was an act. He went to the chair like many of the Murder, Inc. gunmen did....silently. In those days Omerta meant something, I guess.
Oh, and Zangara’s family never wanted for anything for the rest of their lives, either.....if you know what I mean.
PS, If I’m not mistaken, the shooting occurred in Florida, not Chicago.