PRESIDENTS’ DAY WEEKEND - ”THE MADMAN WHO KILLED GARFIELD: CHARLES GUITEAU’S CIRCUS TRIAL & THE DOCTORS WHO REALLY DID IT”

Reid Carter covers the most bizarre assassination trial in American history. July 2, 1881: Charles Guiteau shot President James Garfield at a train station because God told him to — and because Garfield refused to make him ambassador to France. Garfield lingered for 80 agonizing days while doctors probed his wounds with unwashed hands, feeding him through his rectum when he couldn't eat. Guiteau's trial was pure chaos — he sang hymns, insulted the judge, called witnesses idiots, and argued the doctors killed Garfield, not him. Medically, he was right. The jury didn't care. Hanged June 30, 1882.

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