Assassinations
Assassinations
Parcast Network
President James Garfield Pt. 1: Charles Guiteau
54 minutes Posted Sep 9, 2019 at 7:01 am.
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On the morning of July 2, 1881, President James Garfield entered the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, DC ready to leave for vacation. As he walked through the waiting room, he was suddenly shot in the back by a man angry that he hadn’t received a position in Garfield’s administration, Charles Guiteau.

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