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The Wrong Target?

March 2024
1min read


The caption accompanying Kevin Baker’s “In the News” column for February/March refers to “an assassination attempt on FDR.” This leaves out the very real possibility that Giuseppe Zangara was actually trying to hit the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, whom in fact he did kill. Many mob watchers here in Chicago think that was the case.

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