The Assassination of James A. Garfield

Can you guess these facts about the assassination of President James A. Garfield?
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City where Garfield was shot
Washington D.C.
...and specifically at this railroad station
Baltimore and Potomac
Year the assassination took place
1881
Mentally ill gunman who assassinated Garfield
Charles J. Guiteau
Utopian religious society the gunman was part of, and hated by
Oneida Community
The assassin privately _______ed for Garfield, then felt betrayed after not getting a job in the U.S. government
Campaign
Secretary of War who was standing near Garfield when he was shot (hint: his father had also been assassinated)
Robert Todd Lincoln
Inventor who tried to help locate the bullet in Garfield's body
Alexander Graham Bell
Doctor who used his fingers and metal probes to reach the bullet (his first name was literally "Doctor")
Doctor Willard Bliss
Number of days Garfield survived after being shot, before dying of infection
79 days
Form of execution for the assassin
Hanging
Poem he recited as his last words
I Am Going to the Lordy
Vice President who took office after Garfield's death
Chester A. Arthur
2025 Netflix miniseries about the assassination
Death by Lightning
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