Fact-check: “Motivation for killing President McKinley”
Verdict: True (91% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources, including Czolgosz's own signed confession and contemporaneous records, documented that his motivation was anarchist opposition to governmental authority — specifically his stated rejection of presidents ruling over the people. The confession, held in the Shapell Manuscript Collection, directly recorded Czolgosz's stated intent in his own words, corroborated by Library of Congress records and a 1901 North American Review article.
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