Why did leon czolgosz kill William McKinley?

Answer 1

Leon Czolgosz was communist but also an extremist. Other communists in America felt like he wasn't a true communist because he was so out there and radical. To prove he was with/ not against communism, he shot William McKinley.

Answer 2

Leon Czolgosz was communist but also an extremist. Other communists in America felt like he wasn't a true communist because he was so out there and radical. To prove he was with/ not against communism, he shot William McKinley.

Answer 3

Leon Czolgosz was an anarchist who believed that social system in USA was based on injustice which allowed rich to get richer and get influential. He blamed the political structure for this and assassinated president McKinley.

Answer 4

He was mentally unstable. He also was influenced, if not an active participant , in a world-wide anarchy movement, which believed all government was evil and should be abolished for the betterment of mankind.

Answer 5

Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley because as an anarchist, Czolgosz saw the president as a form of oppression. He found it his duty to kill the president and free the people of the country from his oppression.

Answer 6

Leon Czolgosz, (1873-1901) was well-known as a radical anarchist, and most people avoided him whenever possible. Even other anarchists had little to do with him, deciding he was a dangerous crank and a possible spy or police agent.

At midday, September 6, 1901, Czolgosz approached President McKinley at the Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, NY, one hand wrapped in a bandage. When a few feet from the President, the bandage came off to reveal a pistol. Two shots were fired. The first hit a button on the President's coat, but the second struck the President and Czolgosz was subdued immediately and arrested.

Eight days later the President died and Czolgosz's charges were upgraded to murder. He died by electric chair, a somewhat new form of execution, and then sulfuric acid was pored over his body as it lay in the coffin. The acid was supposed to take care of what remained of Czolgosz within 12 hours.

After McKinley's death, new President Teddy Roosevelt ordered the US Secret Service to take full responsiblity for guarding the chief executive.

Interesting fact:McKinley was another victim of what was called Techumsa's Curse. A Native American curse that says every US president elected in a year that ended in a zero would die in office. Whether you believe it or not, the curse ran from Lincoln until Reagan in 1980. Reagan survived his wounds and seems to have broken the curse. The odds of this being a coincindent are astronomical.

Answer 7

Czolgosz was an anarchist. He subscribed to an international movement that arose around the beginning of the 20th century. Anarchists believed that all government was repressive and should be eliminated. Czolgosz thought he was making the world a better place by striking his blow against government.

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-He believed the President was too pro-business.

Czolgosz believed that McKinley misused his power.

Czolgosz believed that McKinley was corrupt.

Answer 8

He was part of the worldwide anarchy movement of his time that thought all government was evil and needed to be destroyed. He believed he was doing the world a favor by killing the president. He never showed any signs of remorse.

Answer 9

Because he didn't believe in government officials.