Only four months into his administration, President James A. Garfield is shot as he walks through a railroad waiting room in Washington, D.C. His assailant, Charles J. Guiteau, was a disgruntled and perhaps deranged office seeker who had unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the U.S. consul in Paris. The president was shot in the back and the arm, and Guiteau was arrested.
Garfield, mortally ill, was treated in Washington and then taken to the seashore at Elberon, New Jersey, where he attempted to recuperate with his family. During this time, Vice President Chester A. Arthur served as acting president. On September 19, 1881, after 80 days, President Garfield died of blood poisoning. The following day, Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st president of the United States.
Garfield had three funerals: one in Elberon; another in Washington, where his body rested in state in the Capitol for three days; and a third in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was buried. Charles Guiteau’s murder trial began in November, and in January 1882 he was found guilty and sentenced to death. In June 1882, he was hanged at his jail in Washington.
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Charles J. Guiteau was born in Freeport, Illinois, the fourth of six children of Jane August (née Howe) and Luther Wilson Guiteau,[1] whose family was of French Huguenot ancestry.[2]
“Even then, among the Jewish communities of southern France,
the anti-Christian Revolution was being silently prepared. Prosperity
and wealth had rewarded the industry and intelligence of the exiles
in Montpelier, Nîmes, Tarbes, Carcassonne—a score of places in
that part of France where later the Huguenots would flourish—until
they almost rivaled the medieval empery of their brethren in Spain.
Slave-traders, purveyors of silks and other luxuries, usurers—they
excelled generally in the commerce of intangibles, in the handling of
money per se. Culture and power followed upon wealth. It was their
great tragedy that, having failed to understand Who Christ was, they
could not get rid of the messianic consciousness for which they had
been chosen and consecrated. Finding closed to them the only
spiritual door to salvation, they were constantly driven to seek
redemption in the here and now, in the resources of matter, in gold
and power, in anything, anywhere but Christ. When all their kingdom
had turned to dust in their patient hands, and the inevitable scourge”
William Thomas Walsh
Phillip II
https://www.libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1889B28539B7506D637C3D5605BFD2A0
Before the Zapruder Briefing, and before that a Czolgosz Consult, there was the Guiteau Colloquy.
(It’s always good form to let the individual-in-charge know what real consequences might entail.)