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Source: Iowa State Register Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial column Document title: “In General and Particular” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Des Moines, Iowa Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 46 Issue number: 211 Pagination: 12 |
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| “In General and Particular.” Iowa State Register 8 Sept. 1901 v46n211: p. 12. |
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| McKinley assassination (personal response); Secret Service (criticism). |
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| William McKinley. |
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In General and Particular [excerpt]
The utter worthlessness of detectives and secret service agents was proved in the assassination of President McKinley. Several were close to the president, and others were scattered through the crowd, yet not one of them detected the anarchistic assassin, notwithstanding the cloth that covered his revolver was plainly seen over his hand long before he reached the president.