History note on Google:
What resulted from the death of President McKinley in 1901?
As a direct outcome of McKinley’s assassination, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1903, also known as the Anarchist Exclusion Act. The act prohibited immigration to the U.S. for specific classes of people, most notably anarchists.
Physician recorded his last words:
“Goodbye, good-bye to all,” he said weakly, “It is God’s way. His will be done – not ours.” Dr. Mann, who attended at his bedside, here quotes the President, adding, “Truly an ideally beautiful expression with which to end one’s life.”
How it happened:
n Sept 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz waited at the exposition in the Temple Of Music in Buffalo, New York for hours to assassinate William McKinley. He had a pistol in his hand wrapped up in cloth to hide it. A person went up to McKinley and gave an extremely long shake and this distracted McKinley from seeing Czolgosz put the gun into his hand. When Czolgosz got to McKinley he put out his hand and shook hands with McKinley and then pulled the trigger twice, the bullets stunned McKinley and cut through his torso and out his back. There were five doctors available, and a gynecologist, Dr. Matthew Mann, took the lead in bringing McKinley to his house and operating on him. They used sunlight reflected by a mirror to see. Mann decided to leave the bullet in the body and also did not clean the wound. From that infection, McKinley died on Sept 13, 1901 – a week after he was shot.
Thank you for posting about President Mckinley history. Most interesting.
Thank you for posting about President Mckinley history. Most interesting.
One of my relatives was on duty at the telegraph when that happened, and knew what was going on before the citizens did. At least, that’s in the family lore, and I have no reason not to believe it.
The two bullets exited the back of McKinley, then the doc left them in?
The wounds were really not that life threatening.
Today’s medicine would call them serious, but not life threatening.
Even then, they had the skills to treat those wounds (no antibiotics, but the medicine was already quite advanced).
But McKinley got the worst possible treatment!
After all, he was shot in Buffalo, a major city with hospitals and skilled trauma surgeons available!
But, they did not take him to real hospital, they did not properly cleaned the wounds. Dr Mann was not a surgeon!
Historians say, that he got the worst possible care available, and that was what killed him!