James Garfield Assassination: Why He Was Shot and Died Slowly
It’s a grim irony of history: the bullet that struck President James Garfield on July 2, 1881, should not have killed him. But the doctors who treated him, with unsterilized hands and probing instruments, turned a survivable wound into a prolonged, agonizing death. The story that unfolded—Charles Guiteau’s delusional motives, the catastrophic medical failures, and … Read more