Garfield Shot: President Fatally Wounded by Assassin
Charles J. Guiteau fired twice at President James Garfield in a Washington train station, hitting him once in the back. The bullet wasn't fatal. But twelve doctors probed the wound with unwashed fingers and instruments over 80 days, introducing infection after infection while searching for the slug. Alexander Graham Bell even rushed over with a metal detector he'd invented, but the president's steel bed frame threw off the readings. Garfield died September 19th from blood poisoning his physicians caused. Guiteau hanged for murder, but medical malpractice killed the president.
July 2, 1881
145 years ago
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Charles J. Guiteau
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Assassination of James A. Garfield
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