A plaque honoring Cermak still lies at the site of the assassination in Miami’s Bayfront Park. It is inscribed with Cermak’s alleged words to Roosevelt after he was shot, “I’m glad it was me instead of you.” Following Cermak’s death, 22nd Street—a major east–west artery that traversed Chicago’s West Side, and the close-in suburbs of Cicero and Berwyn, areas with significant Czech populations—was renamed Cermak Road. In 1943, a Liberty ship, the SS A. J. Cermak was named in Cermak’s honor. It was scrapped in 1964. Descendants Cermak’s son-in-law, Otto Kerner Jr., served as the 33rd Governor of Illinois, and as a federal circuit judge. His grandson, Frank J. Jirka, Jr., who was with him in Miami when he was assassinated, later became an Underwater Demolition Team officer in the United States Navy. Jirka was awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima; the wounds he suffered led to the amputation of both legs below the knee. After World War II, he became a physician, and in 1983, was elected president of the American Medical Association. Cermak’s great niece, Kajon Cermak, is a radio broadcaster. His daughter, Lillian, was married to Richey V. Graham, who served in the Illinois General Assembly. In popular culture A hastily-produced movie about Cermak, The Man Who Dared, was released within months of his death. 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.” Cermak had a major role in the story as an honest man, and was played by Robert Middleton. 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. Cermak is referenced by Kelsey Grammer’s fictional Chicago mayor, Tom Kane, in several episodes of the Starz TV series Boss. In “Red Team III,” the seventh episode in the second season of HBO’s The Newsroom, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) references Anton Cermak. The history-based crime novel True Detective, the first in Max Allan Collins’ Nathan Heller series, includes a fictionalized account of the Cermak slaying. In the first episode of the