assassination

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• - Story of President Garfield's assassination including contemporary drawings and the execution of his assassin.
  
• - Tells how Garfield died from poor medical care and explores the role Alexander Graham Bell's crude metal detector played in the President's death.
  
• - The story of Bell's newly invented metal detector, and why it failed to save the President's life.
  
• - Detailed account of the medical misadventures that followed the assassination, from History House.
  
• - Biography of Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, from History House.
  
• - Provides a summary of the "treatments" that led to Garfield's death.
  
• - Examines Garfield end as a case of monumental malpractice.
  
• - Detailed account of Guiteau's trial and execution, from History House.
  
• - Includes a biographical profile of the man who shot the President, and links to scanned letters written by Guiteau himself.
  
• - An essay by nineteenth century writer Sarah Orne Jewett which opposes Guiteau's insanity plea. Prefaced with a summary of the case and the issues raised.