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McKinley died on September 14 of gangrene caused by the wounds. He was the third American president to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James A. Garfield in 1881. McKinley enjoyed meeting the public and was reluctant to accept the security available to his office.
Leon Frank Czolgosz (/ ˈ tʃ ɒ l ɡ ɒ ʃ / CHOL-gosh, [2] Polish: [ˈlɛɔn ˈt͡ʂɔwɡɔʂ]; May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was an American laborer and anarchist who assassinated United States President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York.
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, ... the Maine exploded and sank with 266 men killed. [132]
McKinley died in 1901 at the hands of an assassin. And he was in Buffalo, N.Y., that September in part to give a speech prodding the nation in a more free-trade direction.
A drawing depicting Leon Czolgosz shooting William McKinley with a concealed revolver. William McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, a Polish-American anarchist, shot him.
Who killed John F. Kennedy? 60 years after the President's assassination on November 22, ... Abraham Lincoln (1865), James Garfield (1881) and William McKinley (1901). Sixty-three years later ...
McKinley, attending the Pan-American Exposition, was shot twice in the abdomen at close range by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, who was armed with a .32-caliber Iver Johnson "Safety Automatic" revolver that was concealed underneath a handkerchief. The first bullet ricocheted off either a button or an award medal on McKinley's jacket and lodged in ...
But why not?" Trump said. "Because — ready — our country was the richest in the, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s, a president who was assassinated named McKinley.