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By Martin Kelly, About.com Guide to American History since 2001

President Garfield Shot

Thursday July 2, 2009
On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was shot two times while waiting for a train at a train station. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, a lawyer whose application to be the U. S. ambassador to France was denied, was captured immediately after the shooting.

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