How President William McKinley’s Assassination Led to the Modern Secret Service Before McKinley’s death, the president didn’t have one united protective squad ...

President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was executed in the electric chair at Auburn Prison in New York on this day in 1901. Thomas Edison filmed the execution.

Any self-respecting history buff certainly knows already that recent weeks marked the 120th anniversary of the assassination and funeral of President William McKinley, a Mahoning Valley native.

On September 6, 1899, President William McKinley was shot while on a speaking tour in Buffalo, New York. As McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Temple of Music, a Polish born anarchist named ...

Roosevelt had to be called back from a hunting trip after McKinley’s death. The nation—and world—was stricken with grief. “The mourning after his assassination was powerful,” Kenney said.

When it was his turn to shake McKinley’s hand, Czolgosz drew his gun under a handkerchief and shot the president in the abdomen. Eight days later on Sept. 14, McKinley died of an infection.

Notes: The death of the 25th President William McKinley profoundly affected the nation. York was no exception. He was the third American president to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln in ...

Canton paid tribute to its most famous resident over the weekend. Monday, Jan. 29 marks President William McKinley’s 181 st birthday. On Saturday, dignitaries converged at the McKinley ...

A trove of rare papers and reports by a physician present at the autopsy of assassinated president William McKinley is for sale—and may shed light on his death.

President William McKinley helped thrust Canton onto the national stage. ... Instead, following his death, a monument was built for him and a presidential library was named after him in Canton.

President William McKinley's mother suffered stroke 120 years ago. ... Still, the death of Nancy Allison McKinley was a lingering and likely agonizing one for the president and his family, ...