He was shaking hands with people passing through a receiving line when a man fired two ... He was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Leon F. Czolgosz, an unemployed, 28-year-old ...

Theodore Roosevelt became ... in the Spanish-American War. After, the former assistant naval secretary served as New York governor and then U.S. vice president. He was climbing in the Adirondack ...

14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo from gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days prior. The shooting happened during the Pan American Exposition on September 6 ...

Roosevelt spoke of a “New Deal” for the American people ... “is fear itself.” The president seemed to have boundless energy, though polio had left him unable to walk on his own.