Library of Congress
Loc: Topics in Chronicling America: The Mc Kinley Assassination
Find contemporary newspaper accounts of the shooting of President Willian McKinley, his death, the swearing of Theodore Roosevelt as president, and the capture, trial, and execution of the assassin.
Library of Congress
Loc: Today in History: September 6: President Mc Kinley Assassinated
Find information about the assassination of President William McKinley, the assassin, and the circumstances surrounding the heinous crime. This site from the Library of Congress has links to information found throughout the Library on...
University at Buffalo
Pan American Exposition of 1901: Leon Czolgosz and the Trial
As part of a larger website about the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, this section deals with the assassination attempt of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, and his subsequent trial for murder after McKinley died. Find...
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: The Assassination of President William Mc Kinley, 1901
Read the eyewitness account of a reporter who was with William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition when he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural
Follow day by day the unfolding of events that brought Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency upon the death of William McKinley in 1901.
A&E Television
History.com: How Mc Kinley's Assassination Spurred Secret Service Presidential Protection
The Secret Service accompanies the president and the First Family everywhere, but it wasn't always this way. It would take a third assassination of a U.S. president -- William McKinley -- to prompt Congress to assign full official...
University of California
Berkeley Library: The Emma Goldman Papers
Chicago Tribune article from September 1901 that includes passages from an Emma Goldman speech said to have prompted Leon Czolgosz to assassinate President McKinley.
Other
Mc Kinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History
A resource that includes both primary and secondary source documents that relate to assassination of President William McKinley.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: President Mc Kinley Assassination
This article provides facts about the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 and of his murderer, Leon Czolgosz.