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Source: Fort Smith Times
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “McKinley Assassinated”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Date of publication: 6 September 1901
Volume number: 20
Issue number: 28
Pagination: 1

 
Citation
“McKinley Assassinated.” Fort Smith Times 6 Sept. 1901 v20n28: p. 1.
 
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Keywords
McKinley assassination; William McKinley (death: false reports).
 
Named persons
William McKinley.
 
Notes
The 6 September 1901 and 7 September 1901 issues of Fort Smith Times both designate themselves as issue number 28.
 
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McKinley Assassinated

 

MC KINLEY [sic] THE VICTIM OF AN ASSASSIN AT THE
BUFFALO EXPOSITION.
——
Two Shots in His Breast Cause His Death Three Hours Later—Assassin
a Polish Anarchist.

     Buffalo, N. Y., September 6.—(Special to The Times via Postal Telegraph)—At 2:20 this afternoon, eastern time, President McKinley was shot twice in the breast by an assassin, while visiting the exposition grounds. At first it was thought that the President was killed instantly but he revived from the first shock and is still alive though liable to die at any moment.
     Buffalo, N. Y., September 6.—(Special to The Times via Postal Telegraph Co.)—McKinley was shot twice, once in the breast and once in the abdomen. At 4:28 he was reported dead, but not confirmed.
     The assassin was a Polish anarchist who shook hands with the President with his right hand and shot him with a revolver in his left.
     5:05 o’clock, McKinley is dead.
     New York, September 6.—(By Associated Press.)—Pesident [sic] McKinley was assassinated while entering Music Hall at the Buffalo Exposition.

 

 


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