This Is the Brain of the Man Who Shot James A. Garfield
On July 2 , 1881,PresidentJames A. Garfieldwas about toboard a trainat the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington , D.C. when Charles Guiteau stepped behind him . The fail lawyer , newspaperman , and evangelist — enrage that the president ’s advisors had refused him an ambassadorship he believe he deserved , and , as he had written the night before , to “ link up the Republican Party and save the Republic”—had beenstalkingGarfield for months , intent on killing him ....