September 6, 1901 - President McKinley Shot at Buffalo Fair

NYTimes ^ | September 6, 1901,

[swarthyguy]

Different time, place and perspective. You looking at it from the perspective of today, not of that time.

Plus, he did not die for eight days.

And there's certainly no dearth of information in the article; just the lack of a screaming, large type, hysterical headline.

[Tijeras_Slim]

he was truly a great man, admirable in so many ways.

Yeah, but you got expelled from Allegheny College for putting a cow up in the Bently Hall belltower.

[ConservativeDude]

on can comment extensively and correctly about TR's poor domestic policy. he was a disaster in that regad.

but in foreign policy, he would have handled things quite a bit different than Wilson, the globalist socialist with a messianic complex.

and actually it is also conceivable that had TR not become pres till '04, and then again in '08, that the foreign policy crisis then brewing would have been the battle he needed in order to distract his attention from his poor domestic agenda.

TR after all is once and for all a fighter. if he had had a fight, perhaps he would have left behind his domestic agenda.

and i can guarantee you that out of the ash heap of WWI would not have come WWII if Wilson had never taken office.

[E Rocc]

A couple ironies regarding Presidential assasinations:

- One of the four successful assassins and two of the four assasinated Presidents were from Northeast Ohio.

- Ronald Reagan is the only President to be shot (hit) while in office and survive. There is specualtion that he was more severely wounded than Lincoln, Garfield, or McKinley.

-Eric

[swarthyguy]

Uh, Nuke NE Ohio? /just kiddin....

I overlooked posting the article on the Garfield assassination. If you click on the source, you can find it.

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