On September 1, 1901, President McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York while attending the pan American Exposition. The assassin, Leon Czologosz. Czologosz was born in 1873, Detroit, Michigan. Leon was an employee of a wire mill factory, and left shortly after his pay was cut. He moved around, working in different factories. At some of the factories that he and his brothers worked at, were large strikes. During these strikes he saw the extreme difference of the rich and poor, and that angered him deeply. He soon stopped going to these strikes and then began to follow anarchist groups. Some of them he tried to get into. The groups denied his request to join. Once he realized he was never going to get into a group, he started to pursue
