FDR is assassinated in 1933?

[minionofmidas]

Lol at most replies so far.

It's pretty interesting to think about. The attempt really happened, of course.

[minionofmidas]

Are we assuming Giuseppe Zangara shoots Roosevelt? That would have been three weeks before inauguration day, while the world and American banking system was literally unravelling all around. Would the administration have been able to react as it did while also grieving the assassinated President - the man the country was hoping for? Garner was hardly the man to inspire Roosevelt's kind of following. Mass movements calling themselves Fascist and/or Socialist might well have filled the void.
Zangara's vulgarly anarchist rhetoric - he would of course have received much broader coverage - might have created another Red Scare, though. I dunno.