On this day in 1901, President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest. The president rose slightly on his toes before collapsing forward, saying “be careful how you tell my wife.”
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Czolgosz moved over the president with the intent of firing a third shot, but was wrestled to the ground by McKinley’s bodyguards. McKinley, still conscious, told the guards not to hurt his assailant. Other presidential attendants rushed McKinley to the hospital where they found two bullet wounds: one bullet had superficially punctured his sternum and the other had 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 gone undetected in the internal wound. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was immediately sworn in as president.
Czolgosz, a Polish immigrant, grew up in Detroit and had worked as a child laborer in a steel mill. As a young adult, he gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology. He claimed to have killed McKinley because he was the head of what Czolgosz thought was a corrupt government. Czolgosz was convicted and executed in an electric chair on October 29, 1901. The unrepentant killer’s last words were “I killed the president because he was the enemy of the good people—the working people.” His electrocution was allegedly filmed by 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.
How was president Lincoln like a woman? He was shot in the box.
Look at the dramatic difference in this country since 1901. This dude was tried, convicted and executed within 2 months of murdering the president.
Today he’d be declared incompetent to stand trial and spend 20 years in a psychiatric hospital and then released. He’d write a best selling book and he would be praised by left wingers.
Today the trial would take 5 years.
However, it is kind of refreshing seeing a goy actually take physical action against one of the “elites” instead of just bending over and dropping their pants. If more of the bastards thought the goys might come after them, maybe things would change.
Yours in Odin
Diogenes
“gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology” – typical government mouthpiece narrative.
Socialism is the control of industry by the state/government, and anarchy is simply NO GOVERNMENT. One is most certainly NOT compatible with the other. There was plenty to despise about McKinley. He promoted high protective tariffs, he began the era of American imperialism in earnest with his waging of the Spanish-American war and oversaw all of the atrocities committed against the people of the Philippines when they wanted their independence from the US following Spain’s defeat in the war, and many other horrible actions in office. Probably his only redeeming stand was in favor of maintaining the gold standard (though clearly not a market-based gold standard). But then when the government “approves” the history books, honesty about its “emperors” rarely makes the cut.