Posted on 07/03/2019 9:56:05 AM PDT by Perseverando
One bullet grazed his elbow, but a second lodged in the back of President James Garfield, who was shot JULY 2, 1881, as he waited in a Washington, D.C., train station.
The assassin was Charles Guiteau, a free-love polygamist who had been a member the communist cult called the "Oneida Community."
President James Garfield had been in office only four months.
Though not wounded seriously, unsterile medical practices trying to remove the bullet resulted in an infection.
Alexander Graham Bell devised a magnetic metal detector device to locate the bullet, but the metal bed frame confused the instrument.
Two months before his 50th birthday, Garfield died on September 19, 1881.
The next day, Secretary of State James Blaine wrote to James Russell Lowell, the U.S. Minister in London:
"James A. Garfield, President of the United States, died ...
For nearly eighty days he suffered great pain, and during the entire period exhibited extraordinary patience, fortitude, and Christian resignation. Fifty millions of people stand as mourners by his bier."
Vice-President Chester Arthur assumed the Presidency and declared a National Day of Mourning, September 22, 1881:
"In His inscrutable wisdom it has pleased God to remove from us the illustrious head of the nation, James A. Garfield, late President of the United States ...
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Well, he died on a Monday, no wonder he hates them.
YES.
A great book on Garfield and the assassination is Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard.
Between Free Republic, Fox News, WND and Breitbart on the net; Fox News and OAN on the tube, I get severely jolted when catching the occasional MSM version of news and the shameless liberal bias they push in place of truth.
I was especially depressed to find the majority of my classmates (all in their 50s) solidly liberal and swallowing that swill as gospel. My reasonable logic has no effect except to garner accusations of racism and bigotry. And they wonder how their kids went wrong. (sigh)
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