Leon Czolgosz

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Leon Czolgosz

Leon Czolgosz

Leon Czolgosz, police mug shot taken the day after he shot U.S. Pres. William McKinley,...

From The Manner of a Man that Kills by L. Vernon Briggs, 1921

Assassination of William McKinley

Assassination of William McKinley

Leon Czolgosz assassinating U.S. Pres. William McKinley, 1901.

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