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Vice President Roosevelt regrets not being able to have lunch with Justice Kruse, Secretary of War Elihu Root, and Dr. Charles Heber McBurney. He was not able to see Mr. Franchot and sends his regards through Kruse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-09
Jack C. Fisher, a medical doctor, examines the misguided treatment of President William McKinley following the attempt on his life on September 6, 1901. Fisher notes that Vice President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay both had premonitions that McKinley would not survive, and he traces Roosevelt’s movements in the days surrounding the assassination.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2002
The Winsted Evening Citizen includes analysis of the bullets from McKinley’s assassination declaring there was no poison on them, but possibly an infection. The exposition resumes and the details of “Big Jim” Parker’s heroic actions and a biography of Dr. Charles McBurney, the physician tending to McKinley, are covered in the issue.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-23