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Source: Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Missouri for the Year 1902 Source type: government document Document type: general order Document title: “President McKinley’s Death” Author(s): Dameron, W. T. Publisher: [State of Missouri] Place of publication: Jefferson City, Missouri Year of publication: 1903 Pagination: [33] |
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| Dameron, W. T. “President McKinley’s Death.” Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Missouri for the Year 1902. Jefferson City: [State of Missouri], 1903: [33]. |
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| William McKinley (death: government response); William McKinley (mourning); National Guard. |
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| Leon Czolgosz; W. T. Dameron; William McKinley. |
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President McKinley’s Death
General Order No. 8:
It is with profound sorrow that the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Missouri announces the untimely
death of William McKinley, President of the United States, which occurred at
Buffalo, New York, at 2:15 o’clock a. m. Saturday, September 14, 1901, caused
from a pistol shot, fired from the hands of an assassin named Leon F. Czolgosz,
on Friday, September 6, 1901.
In tribute to the memory of the late President
and Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the Nation, flags will be displayed
at half-staff on all armories of the National Guard of Missouri, from date to
until sunset of Thursday, September 19, 1901, on which day the remains of the
late President will be interred at Canton, Ohio.
Guns will be fired every half hour by National
Guard batteries on the day of interment of deceased’s body, beginning at sunrise
and ending at sunset.
Colors and Guidons of the various Commands of
the National Guard of Missouri, will be furled and draped in mourning for thirty
days and all officers of the National Guard of Missouri will wear the usual
badge of mourning upon the hilt of their swords for the period of thirty days.
By Command of the Governor:
W. T. DAMERON,
Adjutant-General.