McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Burlington Hawk-Eye
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Was Warned by Griggs”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Burlington, Iowa
Date of publication: 7 September 1901
Volume number: 63
Issue number: 77
Pagination: 2

Citation

“Was Warned by Griggs.” Burlington Hawk-Eye 7 Sept. 1901 v63n77: p. 2.

Transcription

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Keywords

McKinley assassination (personal response); John W. Griggs (public statements).

Named persons

John W. Griggs; William McKinley.

Document

Was Warned by Griggs

Former Attorney General Says He Begged President to Carry Body Guard.

Paterson, N. J., Sept. 6.—Former Attorney General Griggs, discussing the shooting of President McKinley, said:
“I warned him against this very thing time and time again, and asked him for the country’s sake, if not for his own, to have a body guard [sic] when he went out. He refused. He laughed at me. He insisted that the American people were too intelligent and too loyal to their country to do any harm to their chief executive. He had supreme confidence in the people.”

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