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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York to deliver a speech celebrating American achievements at home and abroad. But waiting in the crowd in Buffalo was an embittered Polish-American laborer seeking to prove his commitment to the anarchist cause. Leon Czolgosz fired two bullets, striking the 25th president and sparking a rush to save McKinley’s life. With the president’s life hanging in the balance, McKinley’s ambitious Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, waited in the wings with bold ambitions for expanding America’s imperial might.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American history tellers early and
0:05.1	ad free right now. Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Imagine it's September 1901.
0:23.0	You're a surgeon at the Niagara Falls Medical Center in upstate New York,
0:27.0	and you're in the middle of a delicate procedure.
0:30.0	Sweat soaks through your medical cap,
0:32.0	as the bright light shining in the operating room make
0:34.8	a hot day even hotter.
0:37.0	Your patient is a man with cancer of the lymph nodes, and he lies on the operating table
0:41.9	anesthetize and unconscious.
0:43.7	You straighten your back and steady your nerves.
0:46.3	You're one of the most talented surgeons in the country, but even for you,
0:50.2	the slightest mistake could mean the difference between your patient living or dying.
0:55.0	With your left hand gripping a surgical clamp, you reach out with your free right hand.
0:59.7	Scalfle, please.
1:01.0	No, no, I need you to firmly grasp this clamp.
1:06.0	Understood.
1:08.0	The nurse nods and places her hand on the clamp,
1:11.0	allowing you to let go.
1:12.0	Good, good. Now maintain pressure until I've confirmed I've removed the tumor.
1:16.0	You take a deep breath and prepare to make an incision.
1:20.0	You freeze, your scalpel inches from your patient's neck.
1:24.0	Someone please send whoever that is away.
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