- "You think the men I work for are just criminals, like a... like a stickup man?! They're in everything! And what they can't buy, they destroy. President McKinley, Black Tuesday... You think those things just happened?"
- ―Rufus Hunt to Peggy Carter and Daniel Sousa[src]
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States of America. In 1901, the Council of Nine, a secret group of businessmen intent on manipulating the United States, orchestrated his assassination.[1]