Directory of Assassination Resources

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This category lists pages and sites that tell about the July 2, 1881, shooting of 20th U.S. President James Garfield and his death from blood poisoning 10 weeks later.

Resources in This Category

• Charles Guiteau Collection

  http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl133.htm
  Includes a biographical profile of the man who shot the President.

• Click2Biography: Guiteau's Assassination of President Garfield

  http://www.awesomestories.com/biographies/charles-guiteau
  Story of President Garfield's assassination including contemporary drawings and the execution of his assassin.

• The Plea of Insanity

  http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/una/plea.htm
  Essay by nineteenth-century writer Sarah Orne Jewett opposes Guiteau's insanity plea. Prefaced with a summary of the case and the issues raised.

 

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