In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt rushed to Buffalo by train after McKinley died and took office in a friend’s library; 125 years later, it is reenacted in the same room
The ceremony took place at about 3:30pm, only hours after McKinley’s death On September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Buffalo after President William McKinley died from injuries suffered in an assassination attempt. Roosevelt reached the city at 1.30pm and was taken to the home of Ansley Wilcox, a friend who would soon provide the…