James A. Garfield Assassination
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James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield Monument
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James A. Garfield Memorial
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James A. Garfield National Historic Site
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Charles J. Guiteau
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Official record of the post-mortem examination of the body of President James A. Garfield (extracted from American Journal of the Medical Sciences)
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Clinical History of the Case of President James Abram Garfield
JAMA (American Medical Association)
Report of the proceedings in the case of the United States vs. Charles J. Guiteau. Parts I–III (Official trial transcript; GPO, 1882) — catalog record
U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) via UC Berkeley Law Library
Appellate Decision in the Charles Guiteau Case (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, General Term, 1882)
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (hosted by UMKC Law)
Guiteau’s Case: Report of the case of Charles J. Guiteau for the assassination of James A. Garfield (appellate report, 1882)
HathiTrust (University of Michigan) — Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Guiteau trial: Closing speech to the jury of John K. Porter (for the United States), 1882
Wikimedia Commons (scan of original pamphlet)
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