USA Today, “Buffalo builds on architecture tourism”

That 1901 Pan American Exposition is where anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley. Continue Reading

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Let’s learn from the past: Assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick”

The news received national attention and ignited public criticism of Frick. One dissenter, Russian anarchist Alexander Berkman, devised a plan to assassinate Frick and inspire a national working-class revolt. On July 23, Berkman entered Frick’s office in downtown Pittsburgh and fired three shots from his revolver, two of which hit Frick in the neck. Frick’s […]

CBS Pittsburgh, “Renowned Actor Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead”

Two weeks later Frick would survive an assassination attempt after being shot in his downtown office by the anarchist Alexander Berkman — sympathy for the workers diminished, the governor sent in the state militia and the union was broken. But rather than dusty, old history, Rylance says the battle was over machines replacing labor — […]