Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: assassination attempt

  • The assassination of President McKinley: Death from traumatic gunshot pancreatitis?

    Portrait of William McKinley. by Albert C. Fauley, 1896. Via the Ohio State House. On September 6, 1901, the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was shot twice with a concealed weapon by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, New York.…

  • Teddy Roosevelt: Did a speech really save his life?

    Kevin R. Loughlin Boston, Massachusetts, United States   Figure 1. Roosevelt’s Eyeglass Case. Photo by Rickster77 on Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0. Figure 2. Roosevelt’s Speech With Bullet Hole. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Part of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. Via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Figure 3. Roosevelt’s Bloody Shirt. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Part of the…