The Mckinley Assassination

There have been numerous attempts of assassinations on seating presidents of the United States. There have been about 20 attempts to kill not only sitting presidents but also sitting presidents, and also president-elects. Among the presidents, gunshot has killed them Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan are United States Presidents that were injured during assassination attempts. All the other presidents of America from John Kennedy have gone through attempts of assassinations. The majority of this assassination cases are connected to political ambitions with some cases being connected to political gains (Clerk, 2007). In this paper, the assassination of James Garfield and John F. Kennedy will be covered.

“The march of events rules and overrules human action,” William McKinley’s own words would soon become foretelling for his presidency. On September 6, 1901, at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, President William McKinley reached for another handshake two large bangs interrupted the buzz of voices in the Temple of Music. Eight days later, William McKinley died from his wounds. McKinley’s untimely death shocked the nation and created many changes in the United States as a whole. How and why McKinley was assassinated and what changes occurred due to the death of the President.

The United States would not be the same today if Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated on the unfortunate night of April 14, 1865. His killer, John Wilkes Booth, had a strong resent for the Union that subsequently caused a dramatic shift in history. This hatred was caused by many factors, such as his background and where he grew up, his lust for power and fame, and his mental illness. John Wilkes Booth, a master assassinator and conspirator, hoped to strengthen the confederacy by killing Abraham Lincoln. However, this murder created an even stronger opposition to the South than ever before.

Do you know who the 25th president of the United States was? That would be William McKinley. William McKinley died on September 14 ,1901, by the hands of Leon Czolgosz. It happened at the Pan-American Exposition. When it was Leon Czolgosz turn to shake McKinley’s hands, he shot him three times. Leon personally said that he didn’t believe that one man shouldn’t have so much power. The assassination of William McKinley was unjust because he was a good leader, and helped Cuba gained its independence;however some believed he was too protective about tariffs. First, let’s talk about how he was a great leader.

One way that the assassination can be justified is that Leon Czolgosz lost his job due to an economic crash(Source F). I say this can justify it because president McKinley is the leader of that so he probably had anger built up inside of him. Nevertheless, that doesn’t change my mind. This assassination is unjustified. If he has anger killing the president won’t make it better because he will soon be

President William McKinley was shot dead by Leon Czolgosz. Theodore Roosevelt was then put into office as our country's 26th president and youngest to ever go into office at 42. He served from 1901 until 1909. He was in the republican party, as well as the progressive party. After being elected for his second term, he got a new vice president Charles W. Fairbanks. Once of his most famous actions was the Square Deal, aiming to help all classes of people. One time during his presidency, he even got shot and still continued to give a 90 minute speech. During his presidency, he also ended the Russo-Japanese war and was awarded with a Nobel Peace

Unfortunately, the previous President William McKinley was injured on September 6, 1901 at Buffalo, New York, which terminated his life.

Schrank did shoot Roosevelt, but the bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest only after hitting both his steel eyeglass case and a 50-page copy of his speech, which he was carrying in his jacket. The reason behind, the attempt of the shooting, John Flammang Schrank said that he was advised by the ghost of William McKinley in a dream to avenge his death, pointing to a picture of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1908, Federal Bureau of Investigation also known as FBI was established, and still to this day, we know and use that name, but first Theodore was the man, who came up with the idea of this incredible service and is another reason that was a good

William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio, a town of about 300 people. He was the 7th child born to William and Nancy Alison McKinley His family moved to Poland, Ohio when he was nine years old so that the children could go to a private school called the Poland Academy. In school William liked to read, debate, and he was the president of the school’s first debate club. When he was 16 he went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for a while before he got sick and had to return home .he did not go back to Meadville, because the family had no money. Instead, he worked as a postal clerk for awhile.

William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. As being born and raised in the United States, he met two of the qualifications to run for President. Although education is not a requirement to run for president, McKinley went to school that was run by a Methodist seminary in his hometown of Ohio. After McKinley completed that, he went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1860. William attended Allegheny for only one term because of his financial problems.

Before 1967, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was not enacted, so when the Vice President of William McKinley died in November 1899 Theodore Roosevelt won the nomination unanimously. Little did Theodore know that this was the beginning of his rise to the presidency. He campaigned vigorously for McKinley which eventually lead to their landslide victory in 1900. Roosevelt spent six uneventful months as Vice President, as his most notable action was thrilling his supporters with words “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.” On September 6th, President McKinley was shot, and died eight days later on September 14th. Roosevelt was sworn in, and the rest was history. Theodore Roosevelt served as the 26th President of the United

JFK had been assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:38. He was shot when he was in a car and had been rushed to the hospital from theirs. He had been killed because somebody didn’t like him in office so they shot him. He died to do to a bullet wound right through the stomach. He had died on his way to his speech in Dallas, Texas. His wife was in the car with him when he was shot.

On April 14, 1865 at twelve o’ clock midnight John Wilkes Booth lay in his bed at the National Hotel. Three days earlier he had attended a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. The civil war had commenced just two days earlier and the crowd was jubilant. When Lincoln concluded his speech with the the acknowledgment of black suffrage, Booth became incensed and declared that “Now by God, I’ll put him through, that will be the last speech he makes”. Booth was a staunch Confederate sympathizer and he had previously plotted a kidnapping involving the president in exchange for POWS between the northern and southern states. With that plan failed, he became desperate in figuring a way to put the power back in the Confederacy. Along with three other conspirators Booth realized exactly what needed to be done and that night at Ford’s Theatre, while a performance of the play “Our American Cousin” was appearing, Booth slipped into the Presidential Box seats where Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd were seated and shot him. Booth jumped onto the stage below and fled the scene among the chaos. As Lincoln lay dying a young surgeon named Charles Leale and other doctors in the audience tended to Lincoln and decided that traveling to the White house was out of the question, so carrying him out of the theatre on a stretcher, Lincoln was taken to the Petersen Boarding House

Following Kennedy’s assassination, Congress changed the Secret Service’s authorization to extend its protection to other presidential candidates. This security alteration was able to provide more protection so that assassinations of political candidates and political leaders can be prevented. Although it was tragic to see Robert F. Kennedy pass away similar to how his brother did, this event lead to stricter security for those who needed it.

It was about fifty years ago, on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas and one of the greatest conspiracies was born. As President Kennedy was riding a motorcade through the heart of the plaza, a series of deafening gunshots rang out, one striking him. Later that day, he was pronounced dead, sending the country into total depression. A week later, Lyndon B. Johnson, the new president, appointed the Warren Commision, a