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Which president drove a gangster car?

In 1933, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was visiting Chicago. There, his car was fired on - the president himself was not injured, but the mayor of the city, who was traveling with him, was mortally wounded. After this incident, the security service attended to the search for a protected car, which was chosen as an armored Cadillac confiscated from Al Capone two years earlier. In addition to armor throughout the body and bulletproof glass, this car was equipped with hidden loopholes in the doors, and even a machine gun could be fired through the folding rear window.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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