September 14, 1901, front page of the Boston Morning Journal, announcing the death of President William McKinley. Image from Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers.
Lincoln, Garfield, then McKinley.
September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, eight days after having been shot at Buffalo’s Pan American Exposition a sort of World Fair.
Within hours, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took the oath as president.
Ken Burns explained the events of the day well in his long series of films on the Roosevelts:
Interesting to read the newspapers from an era before television, radio or especially internet.
Front page of the “3:00 p.m. edition” of the Buffalo Enquirer, September 14, 1901. Image from Nate D. Sanders Auctions
More:
- Last photos of President McKinley
- “The Presidential Library that Isn’t a Presidential Library”
- Post from 2016, on the 115th anniversary of McKinley’s death
- President McKinley shot at the Pan American Exposition, September 6, 1901
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Yes, it is interesting to read these old newspapers.
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