On February 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Miami. FDR's death would have provoked a constitutional crisis and heightened the nation's financial depression. In a global society, death anxiety may be heightened when a head of state is assassinated, incapacitated by, or survives an assassination attempt. Given the migration disporia of a nation, especially due to political and financial conditions, a leader's assassination may have immediate implications for neighbors or colleagues in other countries. Terror management theory suggests that following threatening events, individuals must defuse heightened death anxiety. Some individuals become more conservatively religious or frame incidents in religious-defined interpretations. Thus, many concluded that God “spared” Roosevelt.
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