ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO, President . Two typed letters signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President-Elect, to Hernand Behn of ITT, Warm Springs, [Georgia], 23 January 1933; Hyde Park, 21 February 1933. Each 1 page, small 4to, on personal stationery, with a secretarial LS and original envelopes . Fine condition. (3) ROOSEVELT WRITES OF HIS ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION Roosevelt's first letter thanks Behn for a cordial note and his continued support (Roosevelt had been elected to his second term, but not yet inaugurated). His second letter is dated only 6 days after a failed attempt to assassinate Roosevelt. While on a visit to Miami on 15 February, Giuseppe Zangara, a bricklayer, shouting "too many people are starving to death," opened fire from close range upon the Presidential party, missing Roosevelt but mortally wounding Joseph Cermak, Mayor of Chicago and five others: Less than a week after the traumatic incident, Roosevelt writes: "...thank you for your note to me after the disagreeable time in Miami. I shall be much happier when I know that Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill are really past the danger point." Mayor Cermak died (from wounds inflicted by the shot intended for the President) a few weeks later. Zangara was convicted, sentenced to death and executed on 20 March 1933. (3)
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO, President . Two typed letters signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President-Elect, to Hernand Behn of ITT, Warm Springs, [Georgia], 23 January 1933; Hyde Park, 21 February 1933. Each 1 page, small 4to, on personal stationery, with a secretarial LS and original envelopes . Fine condition. (3) ROOSEVELT WRITES OF HIS ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION Roosevelt's first letter thanks Behn for a cordial note and his continued support (Roosevelt had been elected to his second term, but not yet inaugurated). His second letter is dated only 6 days after a failed attempt to assassinate Roosevelt. While on a visit to Miami on 15 February, Giuseppe Zangara, a bricklayer, shouting "too many people are starving to death," opened fire from close range upon the Presidential party, missing Roosevelt but mortally wounding Joseph Cermak, Mayor of Chicago and five others: Less than a week after the traumatic incident, Roosevelt writes: "...thank you for your note to me after the disagreeable time in Miami. I shall be much happier when I know that Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill are really past the danger point." Mayor Cermak died (from wounds inflicted by the shot intended for the President) a few weeks later. Zangara was convicted, sentenced to death and executed on 20 March 1933. (3)
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