Word: zangara
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Back in the Park.) "Kill him! Kill him! Lynch him!" cried angry voices in the crowd around Joe Zangara. The police yanked him to a waiting car into which some of his victims were being loaded. They shoved him onto the trunk rack, mounted guard on the bumpers. The car jerked forward. Joe Zangara fell off. Police threw him back on, held him down...
...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
...five confused seconds the fusillade was over. The crowd was roaring, "GET THAT MAN! GET HIM!" An avalanche of spectators and police smashed down on small Joe Zangara, buried him under a mill of arms, legs and bodies. Down with him also went nervy little Mrs. Cross, the breath knocked out of her 100-lb. body. Handcuffs were forced on Joe Zangara's wrists. Furious hands clamped his arms and neck...
Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect would (under the new 20th Amendment) have succeeded to the Presidency if Zangara's bullets had found their intended mark, did not hear the news until the following day, so strict is his hotel rule against being disturbed at night...
Meanwhile big-eyed mop-haired Joe Zangara sat in his high Miami cell rubbing his aching stomach and repeating: "If I could eat, I no kill anybody." He appeared without remorse, explaining that his animosity ran against Mr. Roosevelt only as President-elect, not as an individual. Police investigation revealed the following case history...