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1901
President William McKinley dies from gunshot wounds
On this day in 1901, President William McKinley succumbs to
gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin on September 6. According
to witnesses, McKinley's last words were those of the hymn
"Nearer My God to Thee."
McKinley was shaking hands in a long reception line at the
Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old
anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approached him with a gun concealed
in a handkerchief in his right hand. McKinley assumed the
handkerchief was an attempt by Czolgosz to hide a physical defect
and kindly reached for the man's left hand to shake. Czolgosz
moved in close to the president and fired two shots into
McKinley's chest. The assassin was attempting to fire a third
bullet into the stricken president when aides wrestled him to the
ground.
McKinley suffered one superficial wound to the sternum and
another bullet dangerously entered his abdomen. He was rushed
into surgery and seemed to be on the mend by September 12. Later
that day, however, the president's condition worsened rapidly
and, on September 14, McKinley died from gangrene that had
remained undetected in the internal wound. Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president immediately
following McKinley's death.
Czolgosz confessed to his crime, but remained unrepentant. At his
execution by electrocution on October 29, 1901, his last words
were "I killed the president because he was the enemy of the good
people_the working people." The Polish
immigrant-turned-anarchist's death is said to have been filmed by
famed inventor Thomas Edison.
On September 16, after receiving a funeral befitting a president
in Washington, D.C., McKinley's coffin was transported by train
to his hometown of Canton, Ohio, for burial.
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