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The Anarchist Who Shot the President

12th - Higher Ed
On September 6, 1901, an Anarchist Steelworker named Leon Czolgosz shot and killed the President of the United States, William McKinley. This assassination led to a xenophobic panic, sometimes described as a historical war on terror,...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: America 1900: Leon Czolgosz

9th - 10th
Read this brief biographical sketch of President McKinley's assassin, and see a photo.