Story of an Eyewitness
Leon Czolgosz Assassinates President William McKinley
Newspaper article
By: Leon F. Czolgosz
Date: September 8, 1901
Source: New York Times.
About the Author: According to the New York Times, the article contains "a graphic account by an Exposition official who stood near the President when shots were fired."
INTRODUCTION
Leon F. Czolgosz, born in Detroit in 1873 to Polish immigrants, had a reputation as a quiet loner with a violent temper. While working as a blacksmith in a Cleveland wire mill in the 1890s, he began attending meetings of local socialists and anarchists. In 1898, Czolgosz quit his job at the mill and never again worked regularly....
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