Giuseppe Zangara

Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian-born American man who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inauguration. During a night speech by Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, Zangara fired five shots with a handgun he had purchased a few days before. He missed his target and instead killed Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, and injured four bystanders.