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Live-posting as a reporter embedded in history. Curated by @FranticRblx.

NOT AFFILIATED WITH MANNYMAROTTA OR 25 YEARS AGO LIVE!!!

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Update: He's dead.

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Two days ago, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded at 4:12 in the afternoon by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, standing in line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz fired 2 shots from a gun concealed beneath the bandage.

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Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him in the Oval Office.

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Update: He's dead.

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Two days ago, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded at 4:12 in the afternoon by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, standing in line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz fired 2 shots from a gun concealed beneath the bandage.

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@TheTrueOrb Perhaps the darkest since the civil war.

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Update: He's dead.

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A final funeral service for President William McKinley was held in Canton, Ohio, during a day of national mourning, with business suspended throughout the United States. Memorial services were observed in the principal cities of the world.

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@mjwatts1983 Chap named Bartholomew:

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The winning choice for the Flag of Australia was first raised, although the winning design hasn't been announced. At the opening of the new Town Hall in Queensland, Governor-General Lord Hopetoun presided as the banner created by Annie Dorrington was run up the flagpole.

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@Tonantzintlah WWI? A king named WW? Preposterous.. implying a second and even a third

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The Western Transit Company steamer Hudson foundered and sank in Lake Superior, drowning all 25 of its crew, in view of people on the beach at Eagle River, Michigan.

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@mjwatts1983 He'll do great I hope!

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I'm sorry guys.. I'm tearing up.

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A final funeral service for President William McKinley was held in Canton, Ohio, during a day of national mourning, with business suspended throughout the United States. Memorial services were observed in the principal cities of the world.

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Update: He's dead.

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At 3:30 p.m, bells were tolled to signify service ending, and in Canton, and people stopped what they were doing for five minutes. Streetcars and factories halted.

The exception was the city of Boston, which "did not interrupt its customary traffic and holiday avocations".

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President Theodore Roosevelt and the cabinet members are riding along with President William McKinley's casket on a train from Buffalo, New York, to Washington, D.C.

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The Duke of Cornwall and York, heir-apparent of the United Kingdom, has arrived in Canada to make a five-week cross-country tour of the Dominion and its provinces, as his yacht docked in Quebec City.

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Two days ago, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded at 4:12 in the afternoon by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, standing in line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz fired 2 shots from a gun concealed beneath the bandage.

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@ashketchum12335 We can only hope

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@NicholasLissack Who's the one on the right and where's garfield

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William McKinley, 58, the 25th President of the United States, has died of gangrene poisoning from his injuries at 2:15 in the morning, at the home of his friend John G. Milburn...

His entire cabinet besides Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury were there.