On This Day September 19

U.S. President James A. Garfield died of wounds after being shot at the Baltimore and Potomac train depot in Washington DC, by Charles J Guiteau on September 19, 1881.

Garfield being shot

Garfield was originally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac train depot in Washington DC, by Charles J Guiteau on July 2, 1881, Surgeons used a metal detecting machine, which Alexander Graham Bell invented to look for the bullet lodged inside him. However interference from the bed springs created havoc with the appliance and the President died from his wounds two and a half months later.

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