While boarding a train in Washington D.C. on July 2nd, 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot twice, once in the back. The assassin was Charles Guiteau, a man of questionable sanity whom had repeatedly requested Garfield appoint him to an ambassadorship, only to be rejected. Garfield had been in office less than four months. … Continue reading Alexander Graham Bell and the Assassination of President James A. Garfield