Attempt on Trump Recalls the Contrasts With McKinley, Whose Assassination Brought America Together in a Harrowing Moment. Then again, too, no one would have mounted in Central Park a version of ...

Roosevelt first assumed the presidency when President William McKinley was assassinated. September 6, 1901: President William McKinley Republican President William McKinley was shot to death in ...

William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot at McKinley twice, but only one bullet hit the president, passing through his stomach.

In total, four American presidents have been assassinated—Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy—and there have been thirteen other attempted assassinations ...

It was Dec. 30, 1905, and the 44-year-old Caldwell man had left office four years earlier. At age 36, he became the state’s youngest man to serve as governor when he was first elected in 1896.

William McKinley: Assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York. John F. Kennedy: Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 in Dallas, Texas, as the president rode in a motorcade.

FILE - An undated photo of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States. He was inaugurated in 1897, and again in 1901 just prior to being assassinated on Sept. 6, 1901. (AP Photo, File) ...

The Nation magazine was founded in the startled wake of Abraham Lincoln’s murder—the first presidential assassination in the country. It wouldn’t be the last.

William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot at McKinley twice, but only one bullet hit the president, passing through his stomach.

William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot at McKinley twice, but only one bullet hit the president, passing through his stomach.

William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot at McKinley twice, but only one bullet hit the president, passing through his stomach.