Tag: Guiteau
Paging Dr. Bell to the President’s deathbed
Today in 1881, President Garfield died as the result of being shot at close range by an assassin. It took him nearly three months to die. On July 2, after months of increasing agitation and several aborted attempts to shoot the President with a pearl-handled pistol, Charles Guiteau finally mortally wounded the President as he waited [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 19, 2011, under - Civil War, - Presidents.
Tags: Alexander Graham Bell, assassination, Guiteau, president assassinations, President Garfield
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