[Perdogg]

Giuseppe Zangara was executed only 33 days after killing Anton Cermak.

[cynwoody]

Giuseppe Zangara was executed only 33 days after killing Anton Cermak.

It's amazing how much faster things moved in '33:

• 1933-02-15 Zangara takes a shot at FDR but hits Mayor Cermak after a bystander spoils his aim.
• 1933-02-21 Zangara gets 80 years for attempted murder. Quoth Giuseppe, “Don’t be stingy. Give me a hundred years.”
• 1933-03-06 Cermak dies of peritonitis. Zangara is tried again, this time for murder. The verdict is Guilty, and the sentence is death.

  "You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! Get to hell out of here, you son of a bitch [spoken to the attending minister]... I go sit down all by myself... Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere!... Lousy capitalists! No picture! Capitalists! No one here to take my picture. All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks. Go ahead. Pusha da button!"

• 1933-03-20 Zangara is fried.