Complex sentence: The "New York Times" stated, in his obituary, that Pegler lamented that Giuseppe Zangara, a would-be assassin of FDR's who missed and killed the mayor of Chicago instead, "hit the wrong man" when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.
Split into simpler sentences: The "New York Times" stated in his obituary that Pegler lamented the failure of would-be assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who missed FDR and killed the mayor of Chicago instead. He "hit the wrong man" when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.