Word: mckinleyism
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...done by Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 21, a red-headed firecracker from Bakersfield, Calif., and Chuck McKinley, 22, a muscular fireplug from Corpus Christi, Tex., who has been nursing a bad back ever since winning at Wimbledon...
...naming and renaming was a natural reaction; witness a list of Garfield High Schools and McKinley Junior Highs as long as the Lincoln Tunnel. But in the rush to memorialize Ken nedy, many worthy governments and citizens' groups seemed eager to wipe out one historical name with another. In Beirut, Lebanon, Georges Clemenceau Street became John F. Kennedy Street; in Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy. A New Hampshire state legislator proposed changing the name of 5,535-ft. Mount Clay (after Henry) to Mount...
Leon F. Czolgosz, 28, thought of himself as an anarchist. But he seemed such a dubious character in even that company that five days before his murder of President William McKinley, Free Society, an anarchist periodical, carried a warning that he was a spy. After reading of the anarchist assassination of Italy's King Humbert I, the idea of killing the President began to grow in his mind. A week before the murder, he bought a .32-cal pistol...
...Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Crowds streamed into the domed room to shake the President's hand. Czolgosz, dressed in his best, simply stepped in among them. None of the 50 guards present noticed the gun he held wrapped in a white handkerchief. McKinley extended his hand as Czolgosz drew up to him. The killer slapped it away and fired two shots point-blank into the President's chest and abdomen Guards and soldiers pounced on him and beat him with rifle butts until McKinley called out, "Be easy with him boys." McKinley...
...assassinations themselves. Guiteau went raving to the scaffold, where a crowd that had paid as much as $300 each for the pleasure of seeing him hang heard him cry, Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier who claimed he had killed Booth, in defiance of orders that he be taken alive, explained that he had acted on God's authority. "Providence directed...