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They Killed the President Twice: How Doctors Finished Garfield
They Killed the President Twice: How Doctors Finished Garfield
The thought that the American president survived an assassination only to be undone by his physicians is chilling: James A. Garfield lingered 79 days after being shot, and when the autopsy finally occurred the pathologist found that the bullet was almost beside the point. How did a .442 Webley British Bulldog and a room by the ocean become a political and medical catastrophe?
In this episode, we tell the life of James A. Garfield from his log cabin childhood through his presidency, the motives of Charles J. Guiteau, and the…
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