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Where Garfield Was Shot

A president, a bullet, an inventor and a doctor who would not be told. Eighty days.

Collection: Washington: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Garfield shot at the station, 1881 engraving
Garfield shot at the station, 1881 engraving · A. Berghaus and C. Upham, Frank Leslie's, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Charles Guiteau confessed to shooting the president and denied killing him. At his trial he said the doctors had done that. It did not save him, and he was hanged in 1882. The shooting took place on this ground on July 2, 1881, in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. The station came down in 1908, and the National Gallery's West Building stands on the site.

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Visiting

Madison Drive on the National Mall, by the south entrance of the National Gallery of Art West Building. The Mall is open at all times.

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