The Most Notable Assassins in U.S. History

Giuseppe Zangar, 1933
On February 15, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had recently returned from a relaxing deep-sea fishing vacation, rode through a Miami political rally in the backseat of a convertible. Giuseppe Zangar, an Italian immigrant who suffered from chronic abdominal pain and came to believe that the President was somehow causing his illness, waited in the crowd. He fired five shots, but none of the bullets hit Roosevelt. Instead, they killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak. Zangar was executed for his crime; his last words before electrocution were allegedly, "Push the button."

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