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This is a re-creation of the execution of Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz was a self-styled anarchist who shot president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901. McKinley, struck twice at point-blank range, died of his wounds eight days later. There was swift justice in those days: Czolgosz's trial took place on September 23. It lasted a little more than eight hours. Czolgosz was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair in Auburn, New York on October 29. Thomas Edison's company filmed this re-creation of the execution based on the testimony of witnesses.
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Added: 29th May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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This film is often wrongly declared to be the actual execution. It's not. The quality is too good. News footage from that era is generally poor.
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Posted by: Naomi on 2008-05-29
If our justice system worked as swiftly now as it did then it would save us taxpayers a bundle of money and decrease the rate of recidivism. Right now the way in which our system works is a big joke.
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I'm with Naomi on this 100 percent. (When did she become a conservative?)
Anyway, I believe God is the ultimate judge of everyone--and the quicker we can send the likes of Czolgosz to his trial date in the afterlife, the better!
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Posted by: Naomi on 2008-05-30
I'm not a conservative, I simply worked in a prison long enough to figure this one out for myself.
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Okay, just wishful thinking.
Weird bit of trivia: The first doctor who tended to the wounded President wasn't even a surgeon. He was a gynecologist! He happened to be at the Exposition displaying his flowers at the horticultural exhibit. He was the first available doctor they found.
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Neat find! I wonder if its the first re-creation ever filmed??
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This might be the first re-creation of an execution ever filmed, but filmed re-creations had been made earlier. One company filmed re-creations of battle scenes from the Boer War and tried to pass them off as real. (The faux battle scenes were shot in New Jersey!)
The James Jeffries-Bob Fitzsimmons world heavyweight title fight in 1899 was also re-created on film when the attempt to film the actual fight failed. (The lights exploded!)
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