This day in history - September 6

[seamusTX]

1901 - President William McKinley was shot be a crazed anarchist in Buffalo, New York, while giving a speech. The assassin was "subdued" by the spectators. McKinley died of his injuries eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president upon McKinley's death.

The assassin was found guilty and executed the following month.

1916 - The first self-service grocery story, Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the prototype of all modern grocery stores and supermarkets.

I can still remember in the early 1960s when the neighborhood grocery story had a counter where you had to ask for what you wanted, and the bill was added up on a paper bag. It was the tail end of that era.

1976 - Soviet pilot Lieutenant Viktor Belenko defected with his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan. The U.S. kept him on the line for several years. The plane was disassembled, examined, and returned to the USSR in pieces. The Japanese government did not allow it to be flown intact.

This was the most advanced Soviet jet fighter of the day. The biggest surprise (to me, anyway) was how primitive its electronics were.

- Jim

[Wisewr]

Interesting note that the assassian was executed the following month. How long would that take today? Or would the assassian even get the death sentence? Probably claim insanity and spend the rest of his life in a padded room with three squares meals a day. They might even "mistreat" him and not give him any recreational time or speacial privledges. How weak we've become...

[Liberty]

Interesting note that the assassian was executed the following month. How long would that take today? Or would the assassian even get the death sentence? Probably claim insanity and spend the rest of his life in a padded room with three squares meals a day. They might even "mistreat" him and not give him any recreational time or speacial privledges. How weak we've become...

The last time a President got assassinated. It only took 2 Days to kill him. We won't know how long it will take until some else succeeds in taking out a president.

Squeaky has been set free, so who knows ?????

[seamusTX]

Well, the last presidential assassin to be judicially executed was Giuseppe Zangara, who shot at Franklin Roosevelt and killed Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago in 1933. He was executed a month later.

Every subsequent assassin or would-be assassin who survived (i.e., other than Lee Harvey Oswald) was sentenced to prison or a secure mental institution, and most were eventually paroled.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was released just last month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un ... _and_plots" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Of course, whatever the penalty for assassination is, or however quickly it is carried out, is no deterrent to people who are bat-guano crazy.

- Jim

[Wisewr]

The last time a President got assassinated. It only took 2 Days to kill him.

But that wasn't through the justice system which I was refering to. That was using the "good ole justice system." .

Not that I'm an expert on the whole incident, I've read reports that there was a possible conspiracy involving Ruby, Oswald, Kennedy, and others. The article went on to say that there was a plan to kill Oswald after the shooting. At least that's what wikipedia said. We'll never know for sure.

[seamusTX]

You are correct that we'll never know for sure.

After 46 years, no conspirator has made a deathbed confession. No incriminating letters have turned up in second-hand file cabinets. No one with any credibility has run his mouth in a bar.

I am satisfied that the known facts are correct, and there was no conspiracy. Oswald was a kook who happened to be an expert marksman. Jack Ruby went to his grave without revealing why he did what he did. Personally, I think he had a misplaced desire to be a hero after living a ho-hum life.

- Jim

[Liberty]

The last time a President got assassinated. It only took 2 Days to kill him.

But that wasn't through the justice system which I was refering to. That was using the "good ole justice system." .

Not that I'm an expert on the whole incident, I've read reports that there was a possible conspiracy involving Ruby, Oswald, Kennedy, and others. The article went on to say that there was a plan to kill Oswald after the shooting. At least that's what wikipedia said. We'll never know for sure.

Obviously I wasn't in on it, but it is clear to all that it was all done pretty efficiently.