| Photo: 1. Pres. James A. Garfield. 2. The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D. C. 3. Layout of train station. 4. .45 caliber British Bulldog Pistol used in the assassination. 5. Artist's rendition of shooting. 6. Charles J. Giteau. |
| Photos of the resting places of American Presidents and a few of their friends...Please Click on Pix to Enlarge! |
| President James A. Garfield was scheduled to leave Washington on July 2, 1881 for his summer vacation. On that day, Charles J. Guiteau lay in wait for the President at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station, on the southwest corner of present day Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Guiteau a republican right wing extremist, claimed he was trying to reunite a divided republican party, after a bitter primary and election, by assassinating Garfield and turning the presidency over to Chester A. Arthur (r). After his trial, at which his sanity was questioned, he was found guilty and hanged in 1882. He is buried under West Building of the National Gallery of Art. Part of Charles Guiteau's preserved brain is on display at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Guiteau's bones and more of his brain, along with Garfield's backbone and a couple of ribs, are kept at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. assassin the grounds of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. |
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