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Show 222 keeper named John Schrank shot at him because Roosevelt was seeking a third term in office. A fifty-page Speech, folded in two to make a thickness of 100 pages, was in Rooseveltrs pocket and dulled the impact of the bullet that struck him in the chest. In 1933, before President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt had taken office, life by Giuseppi Zangara, an attempt was made on his a bricklayer who hated authority and resented those better off than he was. was unscathed, Although FDR Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak was killed by the assassinvs bullets. In 1950, two Puerto Rican fanatics -- Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo -- rushed Blair House in washington in an attempt to kill President Truman. Truman was unharmed, along with Torresola. cuted, Mr. but a White House guard was slain Collazo was sentenced to be exe- but the death penalty was commuted by the President to life imprisonment. Finally, in 1963, 128 years after the first attempt on a president's life, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed in Dallas, struck by two bullets from a mail-order rifle fired as he rode through the city streets in an open limousine. of Texas, A third bullet wounded Governor John Connally Two days later, accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, at twenty-four the youngest of the presidential |
