Category: President James Garfield
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On this day in History, Charles Guiteau Was Put on Trial for the Assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. November 14, 1881
Image: Charles Julius Guiteau in 1881. (Public Domain) On this day in history, November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau was put on trial for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Charles Guiteau’s murder trial was one of the first held in which the defendant’s assertion of insanity was exposed to the modern legal test: whether…
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