....today in 1881, Charles Guiteau (pictured at left) went on trial for the assasination of President James Garfield in July of this year. Garfield was shot as he went to the train station to join his wife on vacation at the Jersey shore. It was Guiteau who had the line, "I didn't kill Garfield, I only shot him. The doctors killed him." Guiteau wasn't completely wrong....it is widely thought that Garfield could have survived, but died of infections caused by his non-sterile, post shooting care.
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