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Source: Wilmington Daily Republican Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Heard the Shots That Killed McKinley” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Wilmington, Delaware Date of publication: 16 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: [2] |
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| “Heard the Shots That Killed McKinley.” Wilmington Daily Republican 16 Sept. 1901: p. [2]. |
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| Keywords |
| Elizabeth B. Johnson; McKinley assassination (persons present on exposition grounds); McKinley assassination (public response: Buffalo, NY). |
| Named persons |
| Elizabeth B. Johnson [variant first name below]; William F. Johnson; William McKinley. |
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Heard the Shots That Killed McKinley
Miss Bessie Johnson[,] daughter
of William F. Johnson residing at No. 807 Jackson street [sic], was standing
in line awaiting to shake hands with President McKinley at Buffalo the day he
was shot. She said she was standing about the two hundredh [sic] person in line
who were patiently awaiting their turn to shake hands with the President when
she heard the two shots and then the police officers came out of the Temple
of Music and closed the doors.
She says she will never forget the scene so long
as she lives. The people were excited and were angry and wanted to lynch the
assassin who was taken away by the police in a closed cab.