The Daily History Chronicle

President William McKinley extends his hand in a Buffalo receiving line, and an anarchist fires twice through a hidden handkerchief. This episode holds McKinley's mercy toward his own killer alongside the poverty and radicalization that shaped Leon Czolgosz, and asks what it cost a government to wait for a third assassination before protecting its presidents. It closes with the still-unresolved tension between a reachable democracy and a safe one.