Days after the country’s 25th chief executive became the third assassinated in office, Philadelphia pursued a memorial.

(WDBJ) - On this day 124 years ago, President William Mckinley was shot by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York while he was greeting the public in a receiving line.

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NEW MIDDLETOWN — Paul Rohrbaugh was in the fourth grade when he told his family he had to write a report on a president, but he didn’t know who to make his subject. His father suggested a report on ...