The Three Major Inventions of Garfield’s Assassination

Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:

The Industrial Age was at its height when Garfield was assassinated in 1881. Inventive minds were at work!

The President Is Shot

The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, where Garfield was shot.

President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was a robust, athletic man of forty-nine when an assassin pumped two bullets into him. One grazed his arm, doing minimal damage. The other went into his side. X-rays were still in the distant future,...