Assassinations ‘13

Type 3Type 3

Type 3RecapRecap:

1) The assassin lives are meaningless/useless and thus, they need to destroy the society they find themselves in

2) Attack a person who symbolizes the majority

3) No significant others in their lives

4) No political motive

I) How to

A) Analyze

1) Who Assassin is

2) Who (tried to) Assassinate

3) Apply the text’s motivation (i.e. type)

4) Apply the text’s explanation

5) Apply the zeitgeist

a) Historical Facts & Motivation

b) Historical Outcome

II) How to

A) Analyze

1) Who Assassin is

Giuseppe Zangara

2) Who (tried to) Assassinate

FDR

Herbert Hoover

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Type 3:Assassin # 1

2) Who (tried to) Assassinate (cont)

Anton Cermak (Mayor of Chicago)

3) Apply the text’s motivation (i.e. type)

Type 3

4) Apply the text’s explanation

1. Assassin lives a meaningless/useless and needs to destroy the society their in

--hated self—wished for death

3. No significant others

---led isolated life

--hated father=

gov’t is the father figure

4. No political motive

-changed target on whim of timing & geography

2.Attacks someone who symbolizes the majority.

-FDR & Hoover symbolized the political/societal/cultural norms at

expense of ‘workingman’

(quote pg 171)

5) Apply the zeitgeista) Symbol (cont)

(along w/ some Historical Facts & Motivation)-Hoover cause of unemployment &

soup lines = the Great Depression-Prez Elect FDR was coming

to town-Hoover/FDR represent capitalism-America is capitalistic-Kill symbolic leader of capitalism=death of

capitalism

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)

b) Historical Facts & Outcome

-FDR short speech from open car & Zangara couldn’t get off a shot

-other politicians, including Mayor of Chicago (Anton Cermak) head toward car

-unable to see—he shoots blindly

--wounds bystanders & Cermak fatally

-assassin executed

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)

b) Historical Outcome (cont)

-capitalism continues but we do go from

Hoover’s laizze faire economics to FDR’s Keynesian economics

Laizze Faire —believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs.

Keynesian --advocating government monetary and fiscal programs designed to increase employment and stimulate business activity.

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)b) Historical Outcome (cont)—Hypothetical:

-If FDR killed,John Nance Gardnerwould have taken over

--Gardner more of a traditional Dem--wanted govt interference w/ Flint Sit-Down

Strike (i.e. side w/owners)this strike unionized the automobile

industry& made the UAW a viable union

--wanted balanced budget

• http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381/videos/giuseppe-zangara-a-near-miss-2179203722

• http://www.history.com/shows/historys-mysteries/videos/attempt-to-kill-franklin-roosevelt#attempt-to-kill-franklin-roosevelt

I) How toA) Analyze1) Who Assassin is2) Who (tried to) Assassinate3) Apply the text’s motivation (i.e. type)4) Apply the text’s explanation5) Apply the zeitgeist

a) Historical Facts & Motivationb) Historical Outcome

Type 3---Assassin # 2

I) How toA) Analyze1) Who Assassin is

2) Who (tried to) AssassinateRichard Nixon – April 1972George Wallace-May 1972 -presidential nominee at

time of attempt-famed segregationist gov of Alabama

3) Apply the text’s motivation(i.e. type)Type 3

Arthur Bremer

4) Apply the text’s explanation. Chara:

4. no political motive

'to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC , FORCEFULL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see’

-switched targets on accessibility

2. Symbolism

-Nixon & Wallace symbolized the political/societal/cultural norms

(pg 187 lines 6-8 under heading Motive)

4) Apply the text’s explanation (cont)

1. Assassin lives a meaningless/useless and needs to destroy the society their in

--hated society=kill society leader=death of society

--hated self—wished for death (pg182)

"[The prosecutor] tells me he'd like society to be protected from

someone like me. I would have liked it if society had protected me from myself"

3. No significant others--led isolated life—loss of ‘love’ (pg177-8)

5) Apply the zeitgeista) Historical Facts & Motivation-Wallace gives speech in MD parking lot but

being hot forgoes the bullet vest-Wallace does grin & grip & Bremer shoots

5 times-Wallace paralyzed for life-wounds 3 others

Alabama State Trooper Captain E. C. DothardDora Thompson, a Wallace campaign volunteer, &Nick Zarvos, a Secret Service agent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIU5c24hEr4

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)

a) Historical Facts & Motivation (cont)

-Bremer wants to outrage the

Silent MinorityMinority -pg 188

-Silent MajorityMajority– a phrase coined by Nixon in a November 3, 1969 speech-

-an unspecified large majority of people in a country who do not express their opinions publicly but tend to be conservative in political philosophy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3K2N7FZSXc

b) Historical Outcome-Wallace out of race for democratic

party nominee for Prez-’uber-liberal’ George McGovern

gets nomination (pg174)

-Nixon won a landslide victory in 1972, taking 49 of 50 states, vindicating his "silent majority” philosophy

-part of Nixon’s Southern StrategySouthern Strategy--refers to a Republican method of

carrying Southern states & conservative Democratic voters in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting racism among white voters

b) Historical Outcome (cont) (pg189 & 193)

-Bremer found guilty & sentenced to 63 yrs but reduced to 53 years after appeal-released after 35 years on 11/9/2007-Probation to 2025-Not leave state w/o permission from state-Stay away from elected officials & candidates-His diaries is what the 1976 movie Taxi Driver is loosely based on which inspired John Hinckley to try & assassinate Pres Ronald Reagan in 1981

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)b) Historical Outcome (cont)—Hypothetical:

1) Wallace gets nomination or prevents McGovern from getting it2) Nixon, who is at a 43% popularity at time of assassination, loses re-election bid3) Dem win and war in Vietnam ends same way but-no Watergate-no disgraced Prez Nixon & presidency-rollback on civil rights legislation under a Wallace Presidency

5) Apply the zeitgeist (cont)

b) Historical Outcome (cont)—Hypothetical:

-no Jimmy Carter

because JC used the Nixon mess

to win presidency

-no Ronald Reagan who

used Carter to win presidency