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Article: Assassination of President McKinley.(assassin Leon Czogolz)(Brief Article)
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- September 1, 2001
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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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