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They Killed the President Twice: How Doctors Finished Garfield

They Killed the President Twice: How Doctors Finished Garfield

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They Killed the President Twice: How Doctors Finished Garfield

The thought that the American president survived an assassination only to be undone by his physicians is chilling: James A. Garfield lingered 79 days after being shot, and when the autopsy finally occurred the pathologist found that the bullet was almost beside the point. How did a .442 Webley British Bulldog and a room by the ocean become a political and medical catastrophe?

In this episode, we tell the life of James A. Garfield from his log cabin childhood through his presidency, the motives of Charles J. Guiteau, and the seventy-nine-day decline that followed the shooting - raising the question of whether the doctors, not the assassin, sealed Garfield’s fate.

Person: James Abram Garfield
Date: July 2, 1881 (shooting) / November 19, 1831 (birth)
Location: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington
Weapon: .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver with ivory grip
Duration: 79 days between shooting and death

- Garfield served 17 consecutive years in Congress before becoming president at age 49.
- Guiteau arrived in Washington on March 5, 1881, and was banned from the White House waiting room by May 13, 1881.
- Guiteau bought the revolver with a $15 loan from George Maynard and paid $1 extra for an ivory grip.
- Garfield’s inauguration speech on March 4, 1881, advocated civil service reform and angered a faction of his party.
- Garfield never reached his train on July 2, 1881, and died 79 days later in a room by the ocean.

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