
The events of November 21–25, 1963, minute by minute, exactly 63 years after they really happened. Created by @reschultzed.
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This concludes the events of M‘KINLEY+125. Thank you to everyone who followed along!
Ida McKinley is resting well at her own home tonight. A small military guard ensures that the street outside remains quiet and peaceful. It is hoped by her physicians and her friends that she will recover from her long illness, even amid the terrible shock of losing her husband.
The train carrying President Roosevelt, and the Cabinet that is now his, are passing through Pittsburg, Pa., the blinds of their car drawn. By 9:25 tomorrow morning, they will return to Washington to begin the work of the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Senator Mark Hanna, who has been refusing all press interviews, is on his way home to Cleveland after the funeral, when the window of his train car is broken by two large rocks thrown by a miscreant along the tracks. One of the rocks lands close to Hanna's feet.
The Pan-American Exposition has been closed altogether throughout today, the City of Light transformed tonight into what the Buffalo Express calls "the City of Dense Darkness". But it will open for business as usual tomorrow morning at 8:00.
September 20 is "Welsh Day".
With his posting as Surgeon General months from taking effect, Dr. Presley Rixey remains behind in Canton with Mrs. McKinley tonight. He tells reporters that he hopes the busy work of settling her husband's estate will prevent her from succumbing fully to depression.
The University of Buffalo's pathological laboratory is testing whether Czolgosz ensured McKinley's death by poison-tipping his bullets, by injecting animals with samples taken from the scene. So far, most subjects seem unharmed, except for one rabbit on the verge of death.
Only now, five hours after it began, does the last division of marchers in McKinley's funeral procession pass out of the gates of Westlawn Cemetery. Nine bands on their way back from the cemetery meet in the public square and strike up "The Star-Spangled Banner".
"I look for a Roosevelt administration, not a continuation of the McKinley administration, before many months blow by," a senator, who asks not to be named, tells a Buffalo Courier reporter. "Roosevelt is not a man who can suppress his own personality."
Frank Olszanowski, editor of local Polish newspaper "Buffaloski", is brought to Czolgosz's cell and asks the assassin who helped him. Czolgosz replies, "What's the use of talking about that? I killed the President. I am an anarchist and simply did my duty. That's all I'll say."
J. Frazer Willets, who saw Czolgosz taking a steamer to Buffalo before the assassination, is shot at outside his Canton home by a large man who flees when Willets fires a revolver. Willets finds a hole in his hat; underneath, a tuft of his hair was taken off by a bullet.
President Roosevelt and the Cabinet board their special train car to leave Canton, Ohio, for Washington. With their departure, the work of the Ohio National Guard is done here, and the boys in blue go back to "Camp McKinley" to rest. Their camp will be torn down tomorrow morning.
With McKinley laid to rest, many bands in Canton have stopped playing funeral dirges and replaced them with the gayest dances. Roosevelt finds it most distasteful that the people here will now cheer him as their new President whenever he passes by.
Saturday's issue of the Medical Record is already in the hands of journalists, who plan to reprint it in tomorrow's papers. Dr. George Shrady concludes that McKinley's death was inevitable, though he sharply criticizes the doctors for their failure to find the bullet.
President William McKinley's casket has been placed in the receiving vault at Westlawn Cemetery in Canton. It will take years before a proper monumental tomb can be built, and his body will remain interred here until those arrangements are completed.
In Chicago, there is a grand funeral pageant with 16,437 marchers and over 500,000 spectators. When a fake casket covered in flowers passes by, the crowd surges forward to get a better look – about 100 people are trampled or otherwise injured, three critically.



