Audience we tell the story of americas 45 worst ladies. And now ida mckinley 45 first ladies, and now ida mckinley. This is about 45 minutes. Susan the story of isa mckinley , there 30 years together bring happiness early on, but Tragedy Strikes and changes the relationship into a life of illness and devotion which shapes the presidency at the turn of the new century. Joining us tonight to tell us this story are two guests retorting to the table president ial historian Richard Norton smith and the National First Ladies Library historian Carl Sferrazza anthony, and this rare footage is of them arriving on stage in buffalo, new york, september 5, 1901, and that date is significant, because the next day, he would be felt by an assassins bullet. What was it about this that attract the president to want to go, especially . Mr. Smith it could not have been at a better time, because it was americas new place in the world and the mckinley presidency, very surprising in many ways. He had been i
It is a website where i detail the accounts, i have the accounts of all my different trips to president ial and Vice President ial burial sites, president ial homes, libraries. Different gravesites. I have interesting facts about the different individuals whose gravesites i have been to showingalso, not just the different sites i have been to, but it is also supposed to be a learning tool. Kurt how old are you . You . An how old are kurt 20 years old. Brian where are you in school . Presently, i am a rising senior at Bryant University in smithfield, rhode island. Brian what is your major . Kurt i am a history major, one of the few at bryant. It is a very small History Department but a very good History Department and i have actually the only history major graduating from bryant next year. I have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. I first got into president s when i was seven years old. My mother brought me this book called so you want to be president . I actua
Brian kurt deion, you have a website. Kurtshistoricsites . Kurt it is a website where i detail the accounts, i have the accounts of all my different trips to president ial and Vice President ial burial sites, president ial homes, libraries. Different gravesites. I have interesting facts about the different individuals whose gravesites i have been to because also, not just showing the different sites i have been to, but it is also supposed to be a learning tool. Brian how old are you . Kurt 20 years old. Brian where are you in school . Kurt Cranston High School west in cranston. Brian and where are you now . Kurt presently, i am a rising senior at Bryant University in smithfield, rhode island. Brian what is your major . Kurt i am a history major, one of the few at bryant. It is a very small History Department but a very good History Department and i have actually the only history major graduating from bryant next year. Brian why history . Kurt i have been so passionate about history for
I have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. I first got into president s when i was seven years old. My mother brought me this book called so you want to be president . George andudith st. David small. I actually dont know why she bought me the book. I think she offered to tell me at one point that i declined because i like the mystique about it. Brian have you read the whole book . Kurt it was a very thin book. When i really liked was the illustrations. It was my first exposure to president s and i found the illustrations very funny. There is William Howard taft, who famously got stuck in the bathtub at the white house. When david smalls illustrations did was they showed president taft being lifted out of the bathtub with an industrial crane. There is an operator wearing a hard hat lifting taft out of the bathtub while he is holding a champagne glass and turkey leg. Stuff like that got me interested in president s in general. I have been passionate about it sin
Night, kennedy and lincoln are sort of bookends, where i soon i assume everyone knows about who lincoln was and who kennedy was. I wont talk much about kennedy and did not talk about lincoln. I assume most people dont know much about garfield and mckinley, so we will talk more about garfield and mckinley more than the actual assassinations. The assassination of lincoln by john wilkes booze and of kennedy by lee harvey oswald, we were in they were able to get away from the scene of the murder all sorts of conspiracy theories cropped up. Who did it, did they get away and did we get the right guy . In the cases of garfield and mckinley, they caught the guy right away. There was no question. Charles the toe was was captured right after shooting garfield and leon was grabbed immediately after shooting mckinley. They both freely admitted they did it, so there was no question about that. Today, we will look at William Mckinley. Mckinley is a figure who is neglected in american history. Garfie