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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8184934, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1901 Pan American Exposition </b></p><p>Electric Tower - Temple of Music McKinley Assassination</p><p>Looped Medal</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431638[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431639[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This silver plated bronze 32mm medal can also be found looped or without a loop having other reverses/obverses.</p><p>I have found this one.</p><p>Perhaps there are more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Electric Tower and The World&#039;s Greatest Wonder. - Niagara Falls</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431641[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Where President McKinley was assassinated - Temple of Music and Where President McKinley President McKinley died - Milburn House</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431643[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>President McKinley arrived just on time to the Temple of Music at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo New York on September 6, 1901.</p><p>The pipe organ began to play &quot;The Star-Spangled Banner&quot; as McKinley ordered the doors open to admit those who had waited to greet him. The police let them in, and McKinley prepared to perform his &quot;favorite part of the job&quot;.</p><p>An experienced politician, McKinley could shake hands with 50 people per minute, gripping their hands first so as to both guide them past him quickly and prevent his fingers from being squeezed.</p><p>The procession of citizens shaking hands with their President was interrupted when 12-year-old Myrtle Ledger of Spring Brook, New York, who was accompanied by her mother, asked McKinley for the red carnation he always wore on his lapel. The President gave it to her, then resumed work without his trademark good-luck piece.</p><p>The usual rule that those who approached the President must do so with their hands open and empty was not being enforced, perhaps due to the heat of the day, as several people were using handkerchiefs to wipe their brows; the man who followed the swarthy individual had his right hand wrapped in one, as if injured.</p><p>Seeing this, McKinley reached for his left hand instead. As the two men&#039;s hands touched at 4:07 pm, Czolgosz shot McKinley twice in the abdomen with a .32 Iver Johnson revolver concealed under the handkerchief.</p><p>President William McKinley died on September 14, 1901 as a result of initial injury and subsequent infection.</p><p><br /></p><p>My 1954 Topps Scoop No 14 Non Sports Card</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431645[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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