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[[File:GiuseppeZangara.png|thumb|250px|Zangara after his arrest in custody of Dade County Sherriff Dan Hardie (left) and Miami Police Officer Lestron G. "Red" Crews (right) holding the pistol used by Zangara]]
On February 15, 1933, Roosevelt was giving an impromptu speech at night from the back of an open car in the [[Bayfront Park]] area of Miami, Florida, where Zangara was working the occasional odd job and living off his savings. Zangara, armed with a [[.32 S&W|.32-caliber]] [[Iver Johnson|US Revolver Company]]<ref name="Abbott2007">{{cite book|first=Geoffrey|last=Abbott|title=What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death|url=https://archive.org/details/whatwaytogo00geof|url-access=registration|date=April 17, 2007|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-312-36656-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whatwaytogo00geof/page/99 99]–}}</ref> pistol he had bought for $8 ({{Inflation|US|8|1933|r=-1|fmt=eq}}) at a local pawn shop, joined the crowd of spectators, but as he was only {{convert|5|ft|m}} tall, he was unable to see over other people and had to stand on a wobbly metal folding chair, peering over the hat of Lillian Cross to get a clear aim at his target from 25 feet away.{{sfn|McCann|2006|p=70}} He placed his gun over Mrs. Cross' right shoulder. (She was only about 4 inches taller than he was and weighed 105 pounds)
After Zangara fired the first shot, Cross and others grabbed his arm, and he fired four more shots wildly. Five people were hit:<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-02-17/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&words=Giuseppe+Zangara&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Giuseppe+Zangara&y=11&x=11&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening star. [volume], February 17, 1933, Page A-5, Image 5]</ref> Mrs. Joseph H. Gill (seriously wounded in the abdomen);<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-03-24/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1933&index=12&date2=1933&words=Gill+Joe+Mrs&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Mrs.+Joe+Gill&y=13&x=18&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening star. [volume], March 24, 1933, Page A-4, Image 4 she was released from hospital March 23, 1933]</ref> Miss Margaret Kruis of [[Newark, New Jersey]], (minor wound in hand and a scalp wound);<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042243/1933-02-16/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1777&index=0&rows=20&words=hand+Kruis+Margaret&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=MArgaret+Kruis++hand&y=16&x=16&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 The Bismarck tribune. [volume], February 16, 1933, Image 1]</ref><ref>[http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/FDR_Assassination_Attempt-pdf old magazine articles FDR Assassination attempt pdf (Bob Crossland "Fifteen second of Terror")] (See also ''The New York Times'' February 17, 1933)</ref><ref>[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,745664-2,00.html "The Presidency: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 12, 1933"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. June 12, 1933. page 2.</ref> New York detective/bodyguard [[William Sinnott]] (superficial head wound); Russell Caldwell of Miami (flesh wound on the forehead);<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063811/1933-03-01/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1933&index=6&rows=20&words=Caldwell+Russell&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1934&proxtext=russell+Caldwell&y=7&x=21&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 ''The Times-News'', March 1, 1933, Page 4, Image 4 he was released from hospital February 28, 1933]</ref> and Chicago Mayor [[Anton Cermak]], who was standing on the running board of the car next to Roosevelt. Mrs Cross had powder burns on her right cheek.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92070146/1933-02-16/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1933&index=0&date2=1933&words=Kruis+Margaret+Wound+wound+wounded&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=MArgaret+Kruis+wounded&y=10&x=11&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Imperial Valley press., February 16, 1933, Image 1]</ref> A Secret Service agent Bob Clark had a grazed hand, possibly caused by the bullet that struck Cermak.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-02-17/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=02%2F16%2F1933&index=7&date2=02%2F18%2F1933&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Bob+Clark&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Bob+Clark&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 Evening star. [volume], February 17, 1933, Page A-5, Image 5]</ref> The intended target, Roosevelt, was unharmed.
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