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Wiendenthal Photo Company of Cleveland,Ohio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Perpetrator

Leon Czolgosz

Born
5 May 1873
Died
29 October 1901, aged about 28
Record
Wikidata Q348187 · Wikipedia

Perpetrator in The Assassination of William McKinley

Unemployed wireworker and self-described anarchist; convicted of first-degree murder and electrocuted at Auburn Prison.

1901 · Temple of Music, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York · Executed

Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Czolgosz hears Emma Goldman lecture in Cleveland.

  2. Czolgosz buys a .32 Iver Johnson revolver at a Buffalo hardware store.

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

  4. Czolgosz's trial opens in Buffalo.

  5. The jury convicts Czolgosz of first-degree murder after a brief deliberation.

  6. Czolgosz is sentenced to death.

  7. Czolgosz is electrocuted at Auburn Prison.