Word: zangara
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...Souza March is a press conference delivered by people who witnessed the attempted assassination of FDR by Giuseppe Zangara, each of whom is clawing for the media attention which the lucky happenstance has provided them...
...another in a grand conspiracy. This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin Roosevelt. In the climax, Booth and the others show up in Dallas to persuade Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy instead of killing himself...