Category: President WIlliam McKinley

• President William McKinley is Shot and Injured at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. September 6, 1901.

  Image: Leon Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a revolver concealed under a cloth rag. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, President William McKinley is shaking hands and greeting visitors at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz walks up to him and fires two shots into his…

  September 6, 2023

  1900s, American History, assassination, crime & punishment, event & history, History Daily, President WIlliam McKinley

  1900s, American History, assassination, crime & punishment, event & history, History Daily, President McKinley