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worldofoysters t1_jebjk2x wrote

Leon Czolgosz shot the President but really it was the doctors who killed him, with their comical incompetence - McKinley was shot in the stomach and was appearing to recover, before an infection (probably caused by the botched operation) finished him off.

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archfapper OP t1_jebkjsy wrote

Ditto for James Garfield. He really died of gangrene and slowly starving all summer

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worldofoysters t1_jeblnrb wrote

Oddly enough, Hay's Secretary of State - John Hay - had also been Garfield's Assistant Secretary of State and close acquaintance. And also a much younger man, Hay was also a secretary to Lincoln, and surrogate son, and present at his deathbed.

Probably the only man to have been present at the deaths of three US presidents

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bolanrox t1_jeclokb wrote

Robert todd Lincoln stopped attending presidential events at this time too

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