Charles Julius Guiteau

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Lindsay and Madison discuss Charles Julius Guiteau and the assassination of President Garfield, as well as how to fail at everything, the power of persuasive letter writing, and that sometimes the answer just simply is they were crazy.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2023 New York Post article by Todd Farley

• 2022 All That’s Interesting article by Kaleena Fraga

• 2021 Timeless Travels Magazine article by Owen Dwyer

• 2017 Garfield Observer article by Todd Arrington

• 2016 National Archives article by Jay Bellamy

• 2015 The Atlantic article by Brian Resnick

• Britannica

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (1)

• Library of Congress

• UMKC School of Law Famous Trials article by Professor Douglas O. Linder

• Wikipedia

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