Not sad enough to condone the assassination of President James. A Garfield, but still very sad. A lot will be left out -- Guiteau’s marriage, his parents, the continual string of skipping out on ...

Garfield died on September 19 ... McKinley seemed to be recovering from the assassination attempt until September 12, when his health deteriorated rapidly. He died of gangrene infection.

Assassination was unnecessary. Todd Arrington, Garfield National Historic Site: The Lincoln assassination in 1865 was viewed as really an anomaly. Nobody gave much thought to the idea that a ...

Essentially, postal route contracts were being sold in return for payoffs. Major Acts: Although he was assassinated before he could do much, James Garfield defeated his party rivals in the Senate and ...

Rockwell's newly resurfaced journals, excerpted exclusively here, offer an incisive account of the assassinated presidents' final moments Jason Emerson In 1880, a new generation helped decide the ...