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How Did Theodore Roosevelt Make Us Insane
Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America
By Eric Rauchway

Who can determine if a person is insane, a doctor, a lawyer, a judge, or a jury of your peers? Does any one person really know why someone acts the way they do? Legal insanity is not knowing whether the act you committed was wrong or right. Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley. Of all the Presidential assassinations, McKinley’s had the most dangerously political movement. This assassination was followed by Theodore Roosevelt taking over the Presidency of the United States. In the 1900’s, the emergence of medicine and law had just began. It was not until the late 1880’s that courts even considered expert witness and expert testimony. Courts began to allow doctors to testify on their medical opinions of defendants they did not treat until after the crimes were committed. The alienist (as mental doctors were called during this time) wanted Leon Czologsz to be criminally insane. His insanity would have made for an easier trial. Leon Czolgosz willing and knowingly went to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY on September …show more content…
Was he a product of his bad circumstances? My personal belief is that he was insane. He was insane to believe that he had to murder a man to make things right for a country. He was crazy to believe that there was no other way to stand for what he believed in. Now I will go on further to say, was he legally insane? NO, he was not! He knew what he was doing. They have already proven he was intelligent. So intelligent that on September 6, 1901 he woke up, hid a gun under a bandage, and went out to kill the President of the U.S.A. He admitted his guilt and never once admitted remorse for anything he did. This man was evil. Whether the world will ever agree on Leon Czolgosz sanity is not the issue, his actions caused Theodore Roosevelt to step up to the Presidency, and during this time great things
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