President McKinley's speech at the Pan-American Exposition /

A silent film of President McKinley's last public speech, given the day before his assassination at the Pan-American Exposition. From the Library of Congress.

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Film & Animation

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• Edison
• William
• McKinley
• Pan-American
• Exposition
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• of
• Congress

[dannyd1572]

Amazing footage. I bet he could tear the hell out of a 99 cent buffett

[TheTweeter53]

@BSNFabricating I recently read that after McKinley was shot, doctors had problems locating the bullet wound because of the President's massive belly.

[Soulblackman]

@BSNFabricating I hear you. It;s speculation at the end of the day.  I'll admit the Lincoln one is tough, when looking it, intuitively.

[BSNFabricating]

@Soulblackman

I'm not sure Lincoln would have survived...he was shot through the brain at point-blank range. From what I've read, the doctor and maybe others stuck their fingers in the bullet hole in the back of his head...but even if they'd washed their hands, I think he was beyond help (that's just my uneducated guess). But Garfield and McKinley would have definitely recovered.

[Soulblackman]

@BSNFabricating It has been opined, that except for JFK, if the medical handlers had just washed their hands, none of the presidents shot, would've died from their wounds.

[peteboy1113]

they had movies in 1901. never new that. i know in 1912, yes, the titanic. thanks for history.

[AbeBSea]

I saw this same footage, but someone had synced up a recording of the speech so it had sound. I'd like to see/hear that, again!!

[BSNFabricating]

This was the day before he was shot...

When they were operating on him afterwards, they were unable to get one of the bullets (one was deflected by a button or something, the other went in his mid-section), and for whatever reason they didn't use one of the new-fangled x-ray machines that were on display at the expo to find it. In any case, apparently gangrene set in along the course of the bullet and he died eight days later. If it happened today, he probably would have survived.

[mindspring57]

Pectoris4 is correct. President McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, and died on September 14, 1901.

[Pectoris4]

Factual history tells us that President Mc Kinley was shot on September 6 and died eight days later, on September 14, 1901. The September 11 date at the beginning of this film probably means the date the film was manufactured- it could NOT refer to the actual events depicted, for on Sept.11, Mc Kinley was dying from his gunshot wound.