Tag: president assassinations
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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Do presidents age more rapidly?
Today in 1923, President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a stroke in San Francisco. Just after midnight, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father on the other side of the country in Vermont. Harding was the sixth president to die in office, and the second in a row to have a [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on August 2, 2010, under Myth or History.
Tags: before and after lincoln photos, coolidge, cooper union, do presidents age, how fast presidents age, lincoln, lincoln aging, national archives, odds of president dying in office, president assassinations, presidential health, rapid aging, warren harding
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