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On this date, Charles Guiteau, assassin of president James A. Garfield was hung. Guiteau shot Garfield on July 2, 1881 after Garfield refused to appoint him ambassador to France…for which Guiteau had no qualifications but that was neither here nor there (Guiteau tried to plead insanity at trial, but hiring a cab to take you to jail after the shooting hurts your case of “understanding right and wrong”). Oddly enough it wasn’t Guiteau’s shot that killed Garfield but the non-washed hands and instruments of the doctors who “took care” of the president…he eventually gave up the ghost on September 9, 1881, thus the slowest assassination in American history.
Guiteau, ironically for me, was a resident of Oak Park, IL…http://bit.ly/guiteauOP.
On top of that he is for sure the only assassin in US (if not world history) with two songs about him: folk, http://bit.ly/beCUMH and broadway musical, http://bit.ly/bIWtyp (start at 2:00)
