Leon Czolgosz

• Anarchist

• Traveled to Buffalo, NY where he knew President William McKinley was for the Pan-American Exposition

• Or possibly he’d moved to Buffalo? (There’s conflicting info out there…)

• Hid a gun under a handkerchief and shot the president twice

• McKinley ask that no one hurt his shooter

• McKinley died eight days later

• Theodore Roosevelt, who had been “kicked upstairs” to the vice presidency to keep him out of trouble, became our youngest president (still is, to this day) at 42 years old

• He confessed “I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn’t believe one man should have so much service, and another man should have none.”

• Czolgosz was found guilty and executed by electrocution

• His last words were perhaps “I killed the president because he was the enemy of the good people—the working people.”