00:00 James A. Garfield, President of the United States, was fatally shot in 1881, but the assassination doesn't receive as much attention as other political assassinations.

02:10 James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, had a short tenure in office and was known for his intelligence and abolitionist beliefs before being assassinated.

04:02 Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, was a member of the Oneida Community, a controversial utopian Christian cult that believed in creating a perfect world on earth through practices such as mutual criticism, complex marriage, and communal child-rearing.

06:06 Charles Guiteau, after being rejected by the Oneida Community, filed a lawsuit against them, later became a dishonest clerk in a law office, got married and divorced, contracted syphilis, supported a presidential candidate in hopes of being awarded an ambassadorship, plagiarized a book, and sent a disrespectful letter to his brother.

08:03 After supporting James Garfield's presidential campaign, Charles Guiteau expected to be given a job in Vienna or Paris, and began sending letters to Garfield and his Secretary of State, James Blaine, but never received a response.

09:58 Charles Guiteau, feeling ignored and betrayed after not receiving a job from President Garfield or Secretary Blaine, convinced himself that God wanted him to kill the President, and on July 2, 1881, he shot Garfield twice in the back at a train station in Washington, D.C., leading to Garfield's death 11 weeks later due to infection from inadequate medical care; Guteau was charged with murder and his trial included an insanity defense.

11:54 Charles Guiteau was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, and on June 30, 1882, he was hanged, while Garfield is buried in Cleveland, Ohio, and Guteau's body was exhumed for an autopsy, with his skeleton in storage at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and his brain on display in a jar at the Muter Museum in Philadelphia.