Word: zangara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brassy, cocky, seemingly born with a sixth sense, Sammy Schulman has had more than his share of news beats. He was the only "snapper" on the scene when Assassin Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt in Miami in 1933. Result: a memorable picture of fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. Of all the U.S. photographers who tried, Sammy alone got into Rome's St. Peter's in 1939 for Pope Pius XII's coronation...
...stenographer's notebooks, fat with more than nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead. All White House reporters were on the train a quarter-mile away. Henry ran the quarter-mile, gave them a thorough fillin, saved their jobs to a man. Kannee last week resigned his $6,000-a-year position...