On this day
23 September
-
1901
Czolgosz's trial opens in Buffalo.
McKinley Assassination Executed
Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead.
-
1943
She is arrested for underage drinking in Santa Barbara, leaving fingerprints on federal file.
Black Dahlia Unsolved
Elizabeth Short, 22, was murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947. Hundreds confessed, dozens were suspected, and no one was ever charged.