(WDBJ) - On this day 124 years ago, President William Mckinley was shot by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York while he was greeting the public in a receiving line.

This proclamation was issued by Theodore Roosevelt just weeks after President William McKinley died, on Sept. 14, 1901, of wounds inflicted by an assassin a week earlier. In the week after the attack, ...

Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th and youngest president in the nation’s history. He was sworn into the role following the assassination of President William Mckinley. At age 42, Roosevelt took the ...