Bayfront Park

This guide to Bayfront Park in Miami returns to a warm February night in nineteen thirty-three, when a crowd packed the seawall to hear president-elect Franklin Roosevelt speak from an open car. Somewhere in the crowd, a short, unemployed bricklayer named Giuseppe Zangara couldn't see past the people in front of him, so he climbed onto a park bench for a better view, a revolver in his pocket he'd bought at a pawn shop for eight dollars. Stand at the water's edge where that bench once stood, and picture the crowd pressed in around him.