The
Charles Guiteau Collection at Georgetown University
http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl133.htm
Guiteau
Collection: Folder Listing
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f133%7D1.htm
The Charles J. Guiteau Collection consists of correspondence,
affidavits
and printed material by and about Guiteau, the notorious attorney who
assassinated
U.S. President James Abram Garfield on July 2, 1881. The assassination
resulted in one of the most celebrated American "insanity trials" of
the
nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in the
judgement of the criminally insane.
Washington,
D.C.--The Attack on the President's Life,
The Arrest of the Assassin,
Sketches by artists A. Berghaus and C. Upham,
1881. Scene in the ladies' room of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad
depot--The arrest of the assassin / from sketches by our special
artist's
[sic] A. Berghaus and C. Upham.
NOTES
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 July 16, pp.
332-333.
Today in
History
In the President's
madness he
has
wrecked the grand old Republican party, and for this he dies.
Comment of Charles Guiteau, two weeks before shooting President
Garfield,
From evidence given at Guiteau's Trial, John K. Porter's Closing
Speech
to the Jury in the Guiteau Trial, January 23, 1882.
The
American
Presidency
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/3d1d.html
An unsuccessful lawyer, evangelist, and insurance salesman, Guiteau
believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic
corps,
and that the president's political decisions threatened to destroy the
Republican Party. Guiteau was convicted of murder and hanged on June
30,
1882. In 1883 Congress passed the Pendleton Act; it sought to reform
civil
service and limit the number of patronage seekers like Charles Guiteau.
Letter to a
Jailer
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec31.html
On December 31, 1881, Charles
Guiteau, the
assassin
of President James Garfield, wrote a New Year's greeting to his jailer.
NYAM
- Library
"By Reason of Insanity: American Psychiatry and the Trial of Charles
Guiteau" is the title of an exhibition that will begin at the New York
Academy of Medicine on April 13, 1998. The exhibition will be drawn
from
the Oskar Diethelm Library--the research collections of the History of
Psychiatry Section, Dept. of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical
College
and The New York Hospital--and organized by Paul S. Bunten, the
Library's
curator.
James A. Garfield
National
Historic Site
... The President's
assassin, Charles Guiteau.
Every detail of the President's shaky
condition made front-page news. On
September 6, a
modified
train brought ...
WRHS
Collections Catalog Online
The Western Reserve Historical
Society's
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Catalog is now available online!
"Charles
Guiteau" the folksong
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/guit1.html
CHORUS:
My name is Charles Guiteau, my name I'll ne'er deny.
I leave my aged parents in sorrow for to die.
But little did they think, while in my youthful bloom,
I'd be taken to the scaffold to meet my earthly doom.
Biography
of James Garfield
the twentieth
President
of the United States (1881).
White
House Biography
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html
- 23.9KB
Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the
White House
for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried
unsuccessfully
to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he
had designed. On September 6, Garfield was taken to the New Jersey
seaside.
For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but on September 19, 1881,
he died from an infection and internal hemorrhage.
Charles Guiteau
- Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau
