I was really surprised to come across this photo of President McKinley. Because of Cold Heart taking place in Buffalo just after the Pan-Am Exposition and my great admiration for Theodore Roosevelt, I’ve read a lot about William McKinley’s assassination. I’ve seen photos of him speaking earlier that day but this picture appears to have been taken in the Temple of Music, where the president was struck down by Leon Czolgosz.

The metadata didn’t specify that it is in the Temple of Music but if so, this picture was taken just a few minutes before McKinley was attacked.  Looking at the surroundings, you would never imagine something like that would happen there.

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I have a rather morbid fascination with last words and last pictures, so this interests me enormously!