Tribune Chronicle (Ohio), “McKinley’s birthday celebrated”
McKinley’s life came full-circle in Ohio, when, shortly after starting his second term, an anarchist from Cleveland shot and killed him as McKinley shook hands with people who gathered to see him. Continue Reading
WIVB 4 (Buffalo), “Presidential Inauguration history in WNY”
The tragic fall of one President led to the rise of another. President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in September, 1901. A 28-year-old named Leon Czolgosz approached him with a gun. He shot the President in the stomach twice. “Czolgosz was an anarchist and he believed that by killing the President of […]
Wall Street Journal, “President Shot at World’s Fair”
McKinley’s killer, Leon Czolgosz, 28, was the president’s polar opposite: a loser lunatic with messianic delusions. In 1894, after losing his job and rejecting his Catholic faith, he became interested in socialism and then embraced anarchism. By 1901 he “carried resentment with him like a malignancy.” Moreover, “in his distress, he found somebody to blame. […]