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Source: Lincoln Daily Post
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “President M’Kinley Shot!”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of publication: 6 September 1901
Volume number: none
Issue number: none
Pagination: 1

 
Citation
“President M’Kinley Shot!” Lincoln Daily Post 6 Sept. 1901: p. 1.
 
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Keywords
McKinley assassination; William McKinley (death: false reports).
 
Named persons
William McKinley.
 
Notes
The article (below) is accompanied on the same page with an illustration of William McKinley.
 
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President M’Kinley Shot!

     Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7,—(Special)—An assassin fired two shots into President McKinley’s body this afternoon. Accompanied by a distinguished party the president had viewed Niagara Falls this afternoon and was to hold a reception at the Temple of Music, Exposition.
     Both wounds are serious.
     An unknown crazy man did the shooting.
     As we go to press President McKinley is reported dead.

 

 


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