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Message to President-Elect Roosevelt About His Escape From Assassination.

February 15, 1933

TOGETHER with every citizen I rejoice that you have not been injured. I shall be grateful to you for news of Mayor Cermak's condition.

[President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, Miami, Fla.]

Note: On February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., President-elect Roosevelt and his party were shot at 6 times by Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer. President-elect Roosevelt was not injured, but several others were wounded, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died on March 6.

Herbert Hoover, Message to President-Elect Roosevelt About His Escape From Assassination. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208082

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