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Czolgosz, Leon
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Czolgosz, Leon (1873–1901) assassin; born in Detroit, Mich. The fourth child of Polish immigrants, he worked in a wire mill and attended socialist meetings. Following a mental breakdown in 1898, he shot President William McKinley in Buffalo, N.Y. (1901) and was electrocuted that same year.
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Our "heroes," then, include John Wilkes Booth (Christopher David Carlisle), who considered himself a modern-day Brutus bringing down the tyrannical Abraham Lincoln; Leon Czolgosz (Larry Lederman), whose assassination of William McKinley was intended to bring attention to the plight of poor workers; and Charles Guiteau (Steven Connor), an author, preacher and would-be ambassador, who took out James Garfield largely for publicity.
DARK 'ASSASSINS' IS RIGHT ON TARGET by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In 1901, William McKinley died of gangrene after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
A TRADITION OF TERROR by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The gang are on the trail of Leon Czolgosz, who in life was the man that assassinated President William McKinley back in 1901.
The Devil to pay; REAPER (C4, 11.05pm) by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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