On February 16, 1933, an assassin aiming at President-elect Franklin Roosevelt hit Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak and four others.  Mayor Cermak died of his wound on March 6. 

Below are images of headlines of stories published in the Joliet Herald-News about the assassination.

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Joliet Remembers the 1930s was written and produced by Jack Tegel and Roger Gambrel

Portraits of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt adapted from images available on the Library of Congress Website,
By Popular Demand; Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies