At 9:30 am on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., James Garfield, President of the United States was fatally shot.

It is an event that, quite frankly, doesn’t really get the attention that other political assassinations have received. The story behind how and why it happened is as fascinating as any in American History.

Learn more about the Assassination of President Garfield and his assassin, Charles Giteau, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail
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