Playboy's History Of Assassination In America
March, 1976
Playboy's History of Assassination in AmericaPart IIIEnd of the KingfishThe spirit of violence is un-American.--Franklin D. Roosevelt, on hearing of the shooting of Huey LongWhat did he want to shoot me for? ... I don't know him.--Huey Pierce Long, September 8, 1935Moments before he was electrocuted on March 20, 1933, for the assassination of Chicago's mayor Anton Cermak, the anarchistic Giuseppe Zangara shouted at his executioners, "All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks!" The main cap...