Presidential assassination attempts often have collateral damage - James Brady, Reagan's Press Secretary, was left brain damaged and paralyzed in Reagan's 1981 assassination attempt, and Governor John Connally of Texas was seriously wounded in Kennedy's 1963 assassination. In other instances, however, individuals that weren't the target of the assassination attempt are killed. Such was the case for Anton Cermak, the former Mayor of Chicago, who was killed in a failed assassination attempt. So, off of Pocket Trivia: US Presidents - what President was the target of that assassination attempt? Was it Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Ulysses S. Grant or James Garfield?
The correct answer is Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was actually the President-elect at the time. Roosevelt was in Miami at the time, giving a speech, with Mayor Cermak. Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed brick-layer, shot at Roosevelt. He hit Cermak and four others, missing Roosevelt completely - Cermak was the only one killed, dying three weeks later.
On the ambulance ride of the hospital, Cermak allegedly told Roosevelt, "I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President."
Now THAT'S PATRIOTISM.
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