History Extra for September 5, 2024

On September 6, 1901, former steel worker Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, a World’s Fair in Buffalo, New York.

McKinley led the business wing of the Republican Party and was known for molding laws to favor the industrialists that he believed drove the economy. After Benjamin Harrison won the presidency in 188…

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