Summary: In this eye-witness, journalist and reporter John D. Wells was invited to President McKinley’s reception on September 6th. Wells arrived to the reception early enough to see the final touches and decorations go up in the area. The president had not arrived yet, and the area was full of chairs to seat more than one hundred people. In the middle of this area, there was room for various lines of people and an empty section for the president to stand in. Once the president arrived, everyone got situated, the reported stood somewhere behind McKinley, along with other reporters and journalist, each preparing to write their stories. Our journalist, John Wells, watched closely as the doors opened. ”Securities” from back in those days escorted McKinley’s followers towards him for the meet and greet. McKinley humbly shook everyone’s hands and as the reported mentioned, “had kind words” for every single person. Everything was going well, McKinley’s people were all content, they enjoyed the one-on-one time with the President, and even McKinley himself looked like he was having the time of his life. From one minute to another, everything changed. A strange man walked up the president, according to Wells, the strange man did not attract much attention. He walked by and no one even bothered to look at this stranger twice. To …show more content…
All of a sudden, two shots were heard. At first nobody was aware of was going in the room. The people waiting for the president outside, thought maybe someone fainted. The doors were quickly closed and McKinley was put in a chair to rest while the assassin was thrown on the ground and captured. Wells describes McKinley’s attitude as peaceful, he requested for someone to gently tell the news to his wife. The most impressive part of McKinley’s reaction was that he saw this strange man who shot him, getting beaten, he simply said “See that no one hurts
On September 6,1901 President William Mckinley was assassinated at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands when a 28 year old anarchist named Czolgosz approached him and shot him twice in the chest. Czolgosz was about to fire a third time when finally William’s bodyguards. William was killed because he was the head of what Czolgosz thought was the corrupt government. As the days went by the president's wounds were getting worse and worse. On September 14, Mckinley died. This meant that Vice President Theodore Roosevelt immediately became president. On September 16, Mckinley had his funeral and was transported by train to his hometown of Canton,
Now twenty-one years of age, Ona had long ago mastered the art of dodging advances from gentleman callers to the president’s house. Men who often took every opportunity they could to behave in ungentlemanly ways toward her. Her most successful strategy was to keep close to Miss Nelly. When that was not possible she endeavored to never be caught alone in corners. With men who were frequent guests, she knew who to steer clear of, but there were often new callers she had no knowledge of. Some of them abused the General’s generosity with his liquor.
Do you know who the 25th president of the United States was? That would be William McKinley. William McKinley died on September 14 ,1901, by the hands of Leon Czolgosz. It happened at the Pan-American Exposition. When it was Leon Czolgosz turn to shake McKinley’s hands, he shot him three times. Leon personally said that he didn’t believe that one man shouldn’t have so much power. The assassination of William McKinley was unjust because he was a good leader, and helped Cuba gained its independence;however some believed he was too protective about tariffs. First, let’s talk about how he was a great leader.
During President Jackson’s time in office, and even before being elected, his idea and actions set him apart from any other former president before him. In the Jacksonian era he was seen as a symbol of “the triumph of democracy” and the events that occurred during his presidency proved to show how the office and even America were experiencing a break from the past.
Born in 1843, William McKinley was raised in Ohio under a family that had strong ties to the Whig Party. The first notable events that occurred during his life were during the Civil War. During the Civil War, McKinley began writing papers. He was able to have one of his papers published that stressed how important the Union’s cause was. This letter was published. Later he met his lifelong friend, Major Rutherford Hayes, who would motivate and influence him throughout his life. After the war McKinley served in an attorney’s office in Ohio. The year after this, he applied to and was accepted to Albany Law School. After a year of studies he moved to Canton where established a small office and met his new partner, George W. Belden, a prominent lawyer and former judge. It was here that William McKinley began giving political speeches. He spoke on the behalf of Hayes, thus showing his first true step in the world of politics. Soon after, he became a prosecuting attorney in Stark County, Ohio. This was an outstanding accomplishment because the prosecuting attorney was almost always a Democrat. Finally, McKinley decided to campaign for his spot in Congress. All of the previously stated events were used to prepare McKinley for his tenure into the House of Representatives in 1877.
Assassination Essay: Why did he do it? Why did he shoot a bullet point blank into the brain of our beloved president? On April 14th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln attended a play called Our American Cousin at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. An actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth, snuck into the president’s booth and shot President Lincoln point blank in the head.
Now, he was well on his way to Washington, chasing what he had long since presumed to be nothing but a ghost story. Still, he had no anxieties or qualms about following this latest of long, winding paths. The world, after all, had its beauty, even mixed in with all the persisting misery and sorrow, and it was like his eyes had been opened to it for the first time in a long while yet. People had become so enraptured in
I looked through my window and saw an older man waiting outside. He stood there in an old gray suit and red tie. It was him all right, I knocked on the window to get his attention and signaled him to come inside. As Edward R Murrow entered my small two room apartment suddenly filled with the stench of cigarettes. I stood to introduce myself.
In 1828, Jackson won a “landslide” victory. The new Democratic party, which he helped forge, brought a temporary end to all the fighting and arguing of the parties in American politics. This time was sometimes called the “Era of Good Feelings” On December 22, 1928, a few weeks before Jackson’s inauguration, he was thrown into a deep sadness, caused by the death of his wife. He believed that she had died because of the abusive attacks by the press of the other side. Jackson at times would use his power and authority as a “Hot-Headed” man, going into simulated rages. And at other times, he could appear as the most courteous “Gentleman” alive. Even though his wife had just passed away, he made it to his inauguration. The morning was bright and clear. Yet there was still snow on the ground which made it very muddy. As Andrew looked out of his window, he saw all of the people coming to Washington to shake his hand. Usually the inauguration was a very peaceful and quiet event. Not this time! All of the guests were his friends. In their muddy boots, self-made coon-hats, and many other irregular clothes, the northwestern fur traders, mountain men, hunters, and old soldiers came marching to the White House. They broke through the lines of guards and came crashing through the front door. They ripped clothes, smashed fine china and glasses, and climbed on $150 chairs ruining them. In order to get all of these “vandals” out, the
President DJ Brackish stood behind his desk in the oval office staring out the window at the white house lawn. He was tired and felt old, but he refused to show it. His triumphs and personal sacrifices had become two mile-long lists that intertwined too often over his past term as president. He had done what no other president could accomplish before him. He stopped wars worldwide, ended terrorism, and helped to create an economic boom as great as the 1920’s except without the political corruption and the possibility of being long lasting. However, with his success as president came losses in his personal life. His wife had divorced him right after winning his second turn and he aged faster from the constant stress of running an entire country.
“The march of events rules and overrules human action,” William McKinley’s own words would soon become foretelling for his presidency. On September 6, 1901, at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, President William McKinley reached for another handshake two large bangs interrupted the buzz of voices in the Temple of Music. Eight days later, William McKinley died from his wounds. McKinley’s untimely death shocked the nation and created many changes in the United States as a whole. How and why McKinley was assassinated and what changes occurred due to the death of the President.
I was born on October 27 1858 and I died on January 6, 1919. I was president from 1901 to 1909. I was not an elected president. William Mckinley was assassinated so I then moved into his place and became the 26th president of the United States of America. I was married twice. My first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, passed two days after our first child was born. My mother died 11 hours earlier. I then left for three years leaving my newborn daughter in my sister's care. I kept a journal that I wrote in and the only thing I had to say was that the light has gone out of my life. On December 2, 1886 I married my childhood friend Edith Kermit Carow. We had five children, Theodore III, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin.
William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio, a town of about 300 people. He was the 7th child born to William and Nancy Alison McKinley His family moved to Poland, Ohio when he was nine years old so that the children could go to a private school called the Poland Academy. In school William liked to read, debate, and he was the president of the school’s first debate club. When he was 16 he went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for a while before he got sick and had to return home .he did not go back to Meadville, because the family had no money. Instead, he worked as a postal clerk for awhile.
America’s history is rich and full of countless heroes, scandals, and incredible stories. Perhaps one of the most interesting of those stories is that of Andrew Jackson’s. To some, he was a hero, but to others, he was their worst enemy. Being raised in the mountains of the Carolinas, he became the first “backcountry president” of the United States (Wilentz, 13). His fame, though, began years before his presidency.
Nothing would prepare me for that horrific day in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. I rarely went with my husband on political trips but decided too on November 21st. A press and a crowd of welcoming Texans were waiting as we landed at Love Field in Dallas around 11:30 a.m. Jack and I greeted everyone when we landed. Afterwards we got into the open-air limousine with John Connaly, the Texas governer, and his wife Nellie Connaly. I never would have imagined in a million years that my life would change in the matter of forty five minutes. As we moved along driving through Dallas, the crowd cheered louder and louder. People had signs and were smiling and chanting proudly toward us. I’ll never forget turning off of Main Street at Dealy Plaza and hearing John say, “They love you Jack” before the accident occurred. In a matter of a couple seconds I heard a loud