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.
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"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
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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
National
Park Service: James A. Garfield
Information on the National Historic
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