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In a 1960 two-part story line titled "The Unhired Assassin" on the TV series ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', actor [[Joe Mantell]] played the part of Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara. This episode, while depicting Zangara's story throughout, focuses mostly on Nitti's plan to kill Cermak with an initial (fictionalized) attempt in Chicago that is foiled by [[Eliot Ness]] and his agents at the end of part one. In part two, another attempt is made using a contract hitman, an ex-Army rifleman in Florida, which again fails thanks to Ness. Suddenly, Zangara's failed, and unrelated, obsession with killing Roosevelt unintentionally achieves Nitti's goal. This two-part story was later edited together as a feature-length movie retitled ''The Gun of Zangara''. In the 1993 [[reboot (continuity)|reboot]] of ''[[The Untouchables (1993 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', the episode "Radical Solution" has actor David Engel portraying Zangara.
Zangara plays a significant role in the background provided for [[Philip K. Dick]]'s 1962 novel ''[[The Man in the High Castle]]'' (as well as the subsequent [[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|Amazon original series]]). This [[alternate history]] novel, set after an [[Axis victory in World War II]], bases the [[point of divergence]] on the premise that Zangara succeeded in assassinating [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]] Roosevelt on February 15, 1933, in Miami. A similar Zangara-is-successful premise is used in
[[Max Allan Collins]]' 1983 novel ''True Detective'', first in his Nathan Heller mystery series, features Zangara's attempted assassination of Roosevelt, positing it as an actual attempt on Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. The novel won the 1984 [[Shamus Award]] for Best P.I. Hardcover from the Private Eye Writers of America.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491560.True_Detective |title=True Detective |publisher=Goodreads }}</ref>
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