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On February 15, 1933 Roosevelt was giving an impromptu speech from the back of an open car in the Bayfront Park area of Miami Florida where Guiseppe "Joe" Zangara was living, working the occasional odd job, and living off his savings. Zangara joined the crowd, armed with a .32-caliber pistol he had bought at a local pawn shop. However, being only five feet tall he was unable to see over other people, and had to stand on a wobbly folding metal chair peering over the hat of Lillian Cross to get a clear aim at his target. After the first shot Cross and others grabbed his arm and he fired four more shots wildly.
He missed the mayor Anton Chermak but five other people were hit including FDR. Two days later FDR died from his wounds.

Vice president John Garner, while dooing anything he could, was unable to lead the USA out of the great depression. In 1940 John Bricker was elected and it seemed that he could get the job done. Unfortunately he was even worse then Garner.

Bouth Garner and Bricker were fanatical isolationists and did everything in their power to keep the US out of the European war.

Without US help Russia and Britain were crushed, Japan conquered the whole Pacific against a weak US fleet and together Japan and Germany conquered the US by 1947.
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