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How Doctors Killed a Surviving President: The Garfield Failure

How Doctors Killed a Surviving President: The Garfield Failure

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How Doctors Killed a Surviving President: The Garfield Failure

A president shot in a crowded train station should have survived; every surgeon since agrees the wound was survivable, yet James Garfield died after seventy-nine days of public, confident medical care. What went so wrong under the hands of doctors who believed they were saving him?

In this episode, we trace the moments before and after the shooting, the personal history that brought Garfield to power, and the actions of the man who pulled the trigger, all leading to the central question: once Garfield survived the night, how did he still end up dead?

Person: James Abram Garfield
Date: July 2, 1881
Location: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington
Assailant: Charles Guiteau
Weapon: .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver

- Garfield was inaugurated on March 4, 1881 and had been president fewer than 200 days at the time of the shooting.
- Garfield was born in November 1831 in Orange Township, Ohio, and graduated from Williams College in 1856.
- Charles Guiteau arrived at the station at approximately 9:30 AM on July 2, 1881 and had borrowed $15 to buy the gun.
- Guiteau stopped to have his shoes shined and had prearranged a cab to take him to the police after the shooting.
- Medical observers agree the bullet wound was survivable, but Garfield died after 79 days of treatment.

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