The President and the Assassin
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The Pan-American Exposition, held in Buffalo, New York in 1901, became the stage for the startling assassination of President William McKinley, by an anarchist. At the time, the United States was undergoing a cultural transition from agrarian to industrial and extending its influence worldwide. One day after President William McKinley addressed the crowd gathered at the Fair, extolling technology and industrial advancement, he was assassinated by a first-generation immigrant, who was a dismayed factory worker and anarchist.
Scott Miller is the author of The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. As a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, Mr. Miller spent nearly two decades in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty five countries. His articles have also appeared in The Washington Post and the Far Eastern Economic Review, among others. He has been a contributor to CNBC and Britain's Sky News.
Oddly, one piece of continuity between the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Robert Todd Lincoln was in D.C. when his father was shot and rushed to his deathbed to be with him.
He was Secretary of War under James Garfield, and witnessed him being shot. And, he was in Buffalo, NY, and nearby when McKinley was shot. He was outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition where the President was shot.
I love how the secret service was like: damn we lost Lincoln. We gotta do better.
Damn, we lost Garfield, we really should do better.
Damn. We lost McKinley. We're terrible.
Fascinating. Only 63 years before Kennedy yet we hear barely anything about it.
This fits nicely with the development of railroads & shipping (Vanderbilt bio, The First Tycoon, TJ Stiles) in US commerce & global, commercial trade. Seemingly almost incidentally, lurching into war with Spain (USS Maine) opened exploration of foreign markets and trade routes only by sea. There was no concerted plan: expansuin into Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and business/Wall Street was adamantly opposed to war. Teddy Roosevelt, Ass. Secretary of Navy, and public whipped into frenzy of support via newspaper narratives. Many similarities with today abound,
Great talk!
why McKinley?
he was president during the Spanish-american war where America became an Empire.
we claimed Puerto Rico Hawaii Philippines & Guam. in addition Cuba was set to be handed over too but those plans fell thru. he was commander in chief using telegraph to communicate directly with generals.
scratch one bogey