The assassination of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington D.C., America on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julius Guiteau.

Only 100 days into office, President Garfield was shot down in a train station by a disturbed office seeker. 'Destiny of the Republic' author Candice Millard, along with Michelle Krowl of the ...

WASHINGTON — James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was assassinated in 1881. But unlike Ford’s Theatre, where 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot, the site where ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Garfield Assassination 119 years ago America was in shock. James Garfield became the second sitting President in less than 20 years to die from an assassin's bullet. Ironically, the inventor of ...

On this day, July 2, in 1881, President James Garfield was shot at a railroad station in the District. The shooter was Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer who was angry because he failed to secure a ...

James Garfield was a Union Army officer before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served for almost two decades before winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1880, but never took it.