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Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through...
...Joseph Zangara's assassination of Chicago's Mayor Cermak (TIME, Feb. 27; March 13) ; a sentence to the electric chair ("and may God have mercy on your soul"); in Miami...
...alertness and dispatch of the Columbia Broadcasting System in sending the whole nation an account of the Zangara shooting by one who witnessed it at Miami surpass even Fred W. Mizer's unnewshawkliness in failing to recount the affair as it was happening to the audience of WQAM, 1,000-watts (TIME...
Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate...
...colyumist, had just filed his "On Broadway" from the Miami Western Union office when a messenger dashed in with the news from the park. Winchell sprinted straight to the jail where he talked his way up to the cell block and eavesdropped on the sheriff's examination of Zangara. He wired the Mirror that night that Zangara "gave every indication of being crazy...