czolgosz -- it lasted two days. czolgosz admitted guilt. the defense counsel wanted nothing to do with it. they did it encouragingly. the defense was perfunctory. he was not interested in helping. after two days he was found guilty. he was sentenced to death. sometimes they are after he was sentenced to the electric chair. >> i think there is only 47 days between the actual bullet shot until the time he was killed we cannot have anything close like that today. >> it was remarkable. >> once the new they are going to try the murder of the president, they wanted to get it over with. it was a sorry chapter in american history. there is the dow about that. bad he is that interviewed further. czolgosz de clam up and refuse to talk about appeariit. >> i read your bibliography. i read about the mckinley presidency. where did you go to get this account? what makes this different than any other but you have seen? >> i think a lot of research at the mckinley presidential library, they have great materials. they did some work there. i tried to really l

czolgosz admitted his guilt. they had to go through a trial anyway for a crime of this significance. he said basically nothing during his trial. he refused to help the defense counsel that was provided for him. the defense counsel -- two ex- judges -- they wanted nothing to do with it. they didn't want to defend the murderer of the president, and they did it kind of grudgingly. so, his defense was perfunctory. but he didn't -- czolgosz was not really interested in helping. so, after two days, he was found guilty, sentenced to death and, sometime thereafter, was sent to the electric chair. >> i think i counted only 40- some days between the actual bullet shot until the time he was killed. >> yes. >> i mean, we couldn't have anything close to that these days. >> it was remarkable. and especially considering that the -- how quickly the trial began. and once they knew that they were going to try the murderer of the president, it all proceeded with incredible speed. and i think the thinking was that they just wanted t