Victim
William McKinley
- Born
- 29 January 1843
- Died
- 14 September 1901, aged about 58
- Record
- Wikidata Q35041 · Wikipedia
Victim in The Assassination of William McKinley
Twenty-fifth president of the United States; shot at the Pan-American Exposition and died eight days later.
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
McKinley is inaugurated for his second term.
McKinley speaks to a vast crowd at the Exposition on trade and the end of American isolation.
Czolgosz shoots McKinley twice in the receiving line at the Temple of Music; Dr. Matthew Mann operates that evening.
McKinley's condition collapses as infection spreads.
McKinley dies at the Milburn House at 2:15 a.m.; Theodore Roosevelt takes the oath in Buffalo later that day.