Article: Assassination of President McKinley.(assassin Leon Czogolz)(Brief Article)

September 6th, 1901

THE CITY OF BUFFALO, on the Niagara River at the eastern end of Lake Erie, is famous for Niagara Falls and honeymoons. In 1901 the city staged a Pan-American Exposition, attended by President William McKinley. The president, genially obese, arrived on September 5th. The following afternoon, a line of citizens waited to shake his hand at a public reception in the Temple of Music. Standing patiently in the queue soon after 4pm was a 28-year-old man of medium height and unremarkable appearance named Leon Czogolz, whose right hand was heavily bandaged. One of a family of fourteen children in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a known anarchist and the ...

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