Attempted assassination of Franklin D Roosevelt (1933) [video]

Note that Cermak eventually died from his wounds, resulting in a street getting named after him. On that street was a giant printing building converted into a data center, becoming one of the most important internet connection points for a few decades.

A lot of people here have probably dealt with computers inside of or connected to 350 E Cermak/CHI1. There’s your tech connection to Roosevelt :)

This is a particularly fascinating newsreel from the fantastic archive posted recently by @billfor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43932024