Craig wrote:
> My favorites in the Heller series were _True Crime_
and
> _True Detective_, both of which dealt with gangsters
in
> Chicago and both of which also had real-life crimes
that
> were solved (I forget exactly which ones now, but I
know
> Al Capone, Dillinger, etc., played roles in these
books
> and one concerned the assassination of President
McKinley
> by Antonin Cermak?).
Cermak was not an assassin, but rather the mayor of Chicago.
In an attempt to kill Franklin Roosevelt, an Italian
immigrant named Guiseppe Zangara fired five shots at the
president, missing him but killing Cermak. There were rumors
at the time that Zangara was working for Capone and actually
intended to kill Cermak, but these have been pretty
thoroughly discredited, and Zangara appears to have been a
solo act and a mental case. The story was used for the pilot
episode of "The Untouchables" series.
Jim Beaver
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