One for the hardcore tinfoilers

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/236411,CST-NWS-brown31.article

Miami is not exactly Chicago's kind of town, historically speaking

January 31, 2007
BY MARK BROWN Sun-Times Columnist

MIAMI -- Let's face it. This city has never been particularly kind to Chicago. From the murder of Chicago's mayor here in 1933 to the political mugging of another mayor at the 1972 Democratic National Convention to the knife to the heart on Monday Night Football in 1985, there is a history here.

And it's not a good one. I'm not saying it's a bad omen. I'm just saying. snip

To try to reverse the karma, I made a pilgrimage Tuesday to the place where Cermak was shot 74 years ago next month with a bullet that police officials at the time concluded, and most historians since have agreed, was intended for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Cermak died nearly three weeks later in a Miami hospital from complications related to what some say was his botched medical care, that being just one more wound in the Miami-Chicago relationship. snip

"I'm just glad it was me instead of you," reads the top line on the plaque -- that being the famous quote attributed to Cermak after getting hit in the right side of the rib cage with one of the six shots fired by Guiseppe Zangara, an Italian immigrant and self-styled anarchist.

There are those who doubt Cermak actually said it, as there are those who don't believe Roosevelt was the real target, preferring an alternative theory that Al Capone, who also operated out of Miami, had arranged for Zangara to shoot Cermak.



An Italian immigrant and self-styled anarchist? Al Capone? Hmmm.

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1. I've always favored the Capone connection. nt