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== =//Murder at the Fair:// The Assassination of President McKinley =

On the sweltering afternoon of September 6, 1901, hundreds of people waited in line to meet President William McKinley at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

The exposition was the first world’s fair of the 20th century, and the popular president had come to the fair to make a speech and celebrate America’s achievements in technology, culture and recent emergence as a world power. McKinley, age 58, planned to shake hands with the public for just ten minutes, but within that brief time, a young man named Leon Czolgosz reached the front of the line and shot the president twice, at point-blank range. Despite doctors’ initially positive prognosis, McKinley died a week after the shooting, shocking the nation. Upon McKinley’s death, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the youngest U.S. President in history. The assassination traumatized and deeply saddened the nation, but also revealed an undercurrent of public dissatisfaction brewing beneath America’s surface optimism.

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