On September 6, 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.”
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.
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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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They should go back to public hangings. Much cheaper. Just need rope and a tree.
Another Socialist.
And an immigrant, too.
Please notice the timeline:
Crime committed September 6, 1901.
Execution October 29, 1901.
53 days for justice to be served.
Today it takes 2 decades,or more for justice to be served.
If ever…
If in California, never.
Roswell Park was in the middle of an operation in Niagra Falls when McKinley was shot. He was called to Buffalo immediately, and a special train was sent, but he was delayed in returning.
The operation on McKinley’s abdomen was performed by a gynecologist, without the benefit of any lighting in the operating room. The anesthetic (ether?) prevented the lighting of the gas lamps, and by 5pm it was getting dark in the O.R. The President’s personal physician arrived at this time and rigged a system to reflect the setting sun into the room.
In addition, there were no retractors available — in fact, there were few instruments available at all in the O.R. No one noticed Park’s complete surgical set in the anteroom.
There are those who think Park could have saved McKinley had he operated. It is pertinent to note that Park later treated (successfully) a woman who, distraught over McKinley’s assassination, inflicted the same type of wound on herself with the same caliber gun
“As a young adult, he gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology.”
Socialism and anarchy are diametrically opposite. This guy obviously wasn’t both. But the establishment always likes to throw in the term “anarchist” when describing some nut case in order to discredit anarchy.
It is interesting that he was executed on Oct 29, 1901, which was less than two months after the assassination. Nowadays it takes at least 20 years. I don’t like capital punishment because the government convicts so many innocent people, but in this case they obviously had the right guy