Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield

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U of Nebraska Press, 2016 - 218 頁

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn't linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world's first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield's body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell's efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield's friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation's twentieth president.

But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life--second-degree murder--rather than ineptitude led to Garfield's drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell's own correspondence the long list of Bliss's criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.

 

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List of Illustrations
The Men of the Third Infantry Were Not Receiving the Best
Why Dont You Plant Flower Seeds?
The Republican Majority in Congress Is Very Small
God Reigns and the Government at Washington Still
The Doctor Declares that the Minister Does Not Own
We Should Not Speak of Love
Aye Theres the Rub
Feeding per Rectum
We Were Enabled to Use Specially Prepared Blood
Mr President You Are Getting Out of the Woods
The Bullet Was Not in Any Part of the Area Explored
I Think the Doctors Did the Work
I Am Not Guilty of the Charge Set Forth in the Indictment
Over the Rainbow City
Acknowledgments

Mr President Are You Badly Hurt?
It Was a Time of Intense Excitement and Painful Suspense
Science Should Be Able to Discover Some Less Barbarous Method of Exploration
Part Three
Papa Has Gone to Make Poor Mr Garfield Well
She Excites in Me the Fire of Lawless Passion
The Garfield Agreement of 1872
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the New York Times and a veteran true-crime and history author of twenty-four books, including The Historical Atlas of American Crime, Cremation in America, and Lobster Boy. He can be seen regularly on the Investigation Discovery channel as a true-crime expert. Hank Garfield is a novelist and the great-great-grandson of President James A. Garfield.

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