The Assassination of James Garfield

The James A. Garfield assassination took place in Washington, DC on July 2, 1881. President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 a.m., less than four months after taking office as the twentieth President of the United States. Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881, the second of four Presidents to be assassinated.