Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 6 ga Satumba, 1901, Shugaba McKinley yana halartar baje kolin Pan-American a Buffalo lokacin da aka harbe shi
ta hanyar Leon Czolgosz. Mataimakin shugaban kasa Roosevelt yana hutu a Vermont, kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Buffalo don ziyarci McKinley a asibiti. Ya bayyana cewa McKinley zai dawo da shi, don haka Roosevelt ya tafi kan shirin da aka tsara na iyali da kuma tafiya zuwa Dutsen Marcy a Adirondacks. A cikin duwatsu, wani mai gudu ya sanar da shi cewa McKinley yana kan gadon mutuwarsa. Roosevelt ya yi tunani tare da matarsa, Edith, yadda ya fi dacewa ya amsa, ba tare da son nunawa a Buffalo ba kuma ya jira mutuwar McKinley. Roosevelt ya yi hanzari ta hanyar jerin masu ba da izini zuwa tashar jirgin kasa ta Arewa Creek. A tashar, Roosevelt ya ba da sakon waya wanda ya ce Shugaba McKinley ya mutu a karfe 2:30 na safe, Satumba 14, 1901. Sabon Shugaban ya ci gaba da jirgin kasa daga Arewa Creek zuwa Buffalo. Ya isa Buffalo daga baya a wannan rana, yana karɓar gayyatar zama a gidan Ansley Wilcox (yanzu Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site). A can ne, a ranar 14 ga Satumba, 1901, Alkalin Hazel ya yi rantsuwa ga Roosevelt.