In Popular Culture
A hastily produced movie about Cermak, The Man Who Dared, was released within months of his death. Further, there was a made for TV movie, The Gun of Zangara, about Cermak's assassination. It was originally a two-part episode of The Untouchables, where it had the title "The Unhired Assassin."
In addition, Cermak is mentioned in Stephen Sondheim's play Assassins during the song "How I Saved Roosevelt".
Cermak and his rise to the mayoralty has also been mentioned in Jeffrey Archer's novel Kane and Abel.
Part of the episode "Objects in Motion" of the television series Babylon 5 is based on the circumstances of Cermak's death.
In Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, FDR is killed by not having a Zippo lighter in his pocket, thus the Axis Powers win World War II.
Cermak is referenced by Kelsey Grammer's Chicago mayor Tom Kane in several episodes of the Starz TV series Boss.
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