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when he was shot, Alexander Graham Bell showed up with a metal detector to try to locate the bullet
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Posted on 11/19/2017 7:31:50 AM PST by harpygoddess
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From a CBS interview with Candice Millard, author of "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President":
The shot in the back was not fatal, not hitting any vital organs. The bullet lodged behind the pancreas.
"If they had just left him alone he almost certainly would have survived," Millard said. Within minutes, doctors converged on the fallen president, using their fingers to poke and prod his open wounds. "Twelve different doctors inserted unsterilized fingers and instruments in Garfield's back probing for this bullet," Millard recounted, "and the first examination took place on the train station floor. I mean, you can't imagine a more germ-infested environment."
To: harpygoddess
Metal detector??...Could have located it with a compass.
To: harpygoddess
It might have worked had Garfield not been laying on a mattress full of steel springs.
L
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posted on
11/19/2017 7:41:38 AM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: Sacajaweau
Metal detector??...Could have located it with a compass. How do you do that?
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posted on
11/19/2017 7:41:41 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(It's gonna be bloody.)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
11/19/2017 7:42:27 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: TangoLimaSierra
With a special lead-detecting compass of course. LOL
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posted on
11/19/2017 7:43:42 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: TangoLimaSierra
If you run a compass over a piece of metal, it will go crazy
To: Sacajaweau
The metal springs in the bed interfered and he couldn’t get good readings.
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posted on
11/19/2017 8:06:00 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Kirkwood
Whoops...Can I do take Back??
But there is such a thing as jacketed shells. Yes?? (Don't know much about guns do I.)
To: harpygoddess
Garfield was certainly the smartest man to ever be President, and might have been a great one, but we’ll never know because his tenure was so short.
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11/19/2017 8:49:51 AM PST
by
mak5
To: harpygoddess
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Charles_J_Guiteau.jpg)
"The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him."
To: Sacajaweau
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; pax_et_bonum; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks harpygoddess.
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posted on
11/19/2017 9:26:43 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Kirkwood
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posted on
11/19/2017 10:18:00 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Sacajaweau
If you run a compass over a piece of metal, it will go crazy Only if it has some magnetic quality. And lead will never have that.
To: TangoLimaSierra
I did a “Take Back” a couple posts earlier.
To: Sacajaweau
Good luck with that. I’ve tried with limited success in the past.
Ummm, not that Ive ever made a mistake or miss-spoke, you understand.
Not me.
nope.
never...
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posted on
11/19/2017 12:29:23 PM PST
by
null and void
(The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
To: harpygoddess
A few years ago my Daughter gave me a book on Garfield’s assassination that covered 6 this in detail. Can’t recall the title but it was a good read and would make a good miniseries if held true to the book.
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posted on
11/19/2017 12:30:52 PM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: LibWhacker
True.
Thousands of Americans die each year at the hands of doctors.
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posted on
11/19/2017 12:32:58 PM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: fella
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posted on
11/19/2017 1:54:36 PM PST
by
Mean Daddy
(Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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