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The Three Major Inventions of Garfield’s Assassination

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Feather Schwartz Foster

The Industrial Age was at its height when Garfield was assassinated in 1881.  Inventive minds were at work! The President Is Shot President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was a robust, athletic man of forty-nine when an assassin pumped two bullets … Continue reading →

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