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President William McKinley dies a few days after being shot by assassin Leon Czolgosz during a meet and greet session in The Temple Of Music, at The Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York State, USA. The murder will inspire at least three songs. The first will be White House Blues by Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers in 1926, followed by the 1929 folk song McKinley's Rag by Riley Puckett. The story of the assassin, Czolgosz, will be told in the song The Ballad of Czolgosz which appears in the Broadway musical, Assassins, written by Stephen Sondheim.
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