Skip to main content
Please contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for assistance with accessing these materials.

Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Eye-witness account by Nicholas Jackson., 07/10/1881-07/10/1881

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 42712
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Charles J. Guiteau collection consists of correspondence, affidavits and printed material by and about Guiteau, the notorious attorney who assassinated U.S. President James Abram Garfield on July 2, 1881. The assassination resulted in one of the most celebrated American 'insanity trials' of the nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in the judgement of the criminally insane.This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in ...
Dates: 07/10/1881-07/10/1881