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U.S President William McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz

2021-09-06 Mon

Today on September 06, 1901, United States president William McKinley got shot by 28 years old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. Leon Czogosz approaches Willliam McKinley and fires two shots into the chest. Leon Czogosz moved towards President William McKinley to fire three shots, but he was struggling to the ground by McKinley during the third shot.

Leon Czolgosz was an American anarchist; he grew up in Detroit. He worked very hard as a child laborer in a steel mill. He was a person of socialist and anarchist ideology. He was found guilty of killing president William McKinley and was convicted and executed in an electric chair on October 29, 1901.

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