Secret Service papers regarding assassination of President William McKinley, 1900-1910.

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Secret Service papers regarding assassination of President William McKinley, 1900-1910.

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Photocopies of documents used in researching his book about the McKinley assassination. Includes reports of special operatives Albert L. Gallaher, Samuel R. Ireland, and an unidentified partial report describing Leon Czolgosz's assassination attempt on Sept. 6, 1901; several telegrams to John Wilkie, Chief of U.S. Secret Service, describing the President's condition and discussing funeral arrangements, 11-14 Sept. 1901; report, letters, and telegrams regarding anarchists' activities and danger to President McKinley, 1900; and a report, from the Papers of Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, 1909-1913, discussing the use of the Secret Service at the time of McKinley's assassination and afterward for protection for U.S. Presidents, ca. 1910.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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President William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States. He was beginning his second term as President after winning the election in 1900. On Sept. 5, 1901 he and his wife were attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when he was shot by as assassin waiting in line to shake his hand. After being attended by physicians, he was resting at the exposition's director's home in Buffalo, NY. He seemed to be recovering when his condition rapidly worsened on Sept. 14th. P...

Fisher, Jack C.,

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Czolgosz, Leon F., 1873?-1901

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Anarchist who fatally wounded President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, 6 Sept. 1901. From the description of Statement, 1901 Sept. 6. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33484531 ...

MacVeagh, Franklin, 1837-1934

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Lawyer, businessman, and U.S. secretary of the treasury. From the description of Franklin MacVeagh papers, 1799-1933 (bulk 1909-1913). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78802204 Biographical Note 1837, Nov. 22 Born near Phoenixville, Chester County, Pa. 1862 A.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. ...

Ireland, Samuel R.

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Gallaher, Albert L.

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