Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 557

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(POLITICS.) MCKINLEY, PRESIDENT WILLIAM. PARKER, JAMES BENJAMIN 'BIG JIM.' "BIG JIM" Parker the man who struck Czolgosz and Defended President McKinley. Photographic card, and ticket, 6-3/4 x 4-3/4 inches with ticket, 2-1/2 x 4 inches; both toned, some soiling, small stain at the left corner of the first piece. Detroit, circa 1901-1902
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When President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, there was immediate pandemonium. However, it was James 'Big Jim' Parker, a 250 pound Negro waiter from Savannah who spotted the shooter, pushed his way through the crowd and, knocked him to the ground.