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

Publication information

Source: Los Angeles Record
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “President M’Kinley Fatally Shot”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Los Angeles, California
Date of publication: 6 September 1901
Volume number: 14
Issue number: 3149
Pagination: 1

Citation

“President M’Kinley Fatally Shot.” Los Angeles Record 6 Sept. 1901 v14n3149: p. 1.

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Keywords

McKinley assassination; William McKinley (medical condition); William McKinley (at Buffalo, NY).

Named persons

William McKinley.

Document

President M’Kinley Fatally Shot

     Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6[.]—President McKinley was shot twice at the Pan-American Exposition grounds this afternoon by an insane man. One bullet took effect in the shoulder and the other in the breast. He has been removed to the service building hospital at the grounds.
     Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6.—It is now said that one bullet struck the President in the chest, and the second in the groin. Both wounds are serious.
     Physicians after a consultation announce as their opinion that the shots will prove fatal.
     BUFFALO, Sept. 6.—President McKin ley [sic] and party and a few invited guests and a military escort, numbering about one hundred men, left here at 9 o’clock this morning on a special train for the Exposition grounds.

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