6 September

The president is taken by train to a cottage at Elberon on the New Jersey shore.

Garfield Assassination Executed

A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest.

Czolgosz shoots McKinley twice in the receiving line at the Temple of Music; Dr. Matthew Mann operates that evening.

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.