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Arguing Insanity: The Trial of President Garfield's Assassin

Who Assassinated the President? When Charles Guiteau bought an ivory-handled British Bull Dog Revolver, he was thinking of which weapon was going to look best in a museum. Because his was a mission inspired by God; he was to kill the president. On July 2nd, 1881, after weeks of stalking him, Guiteau shot President Garfield at a public train station. The bullet from his revolver entered the president’s back, leaving shattered vertebra in its wake before becoming lodged somewhere behind his pancreas . Medical historians have since determined it was the probing of his wound with dirty hands and unclean instruments by Garfield’s...

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