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President Garfield is shot...
President Garfield is shot...
Item # 682030
July 08, 1881
THE WEEKLY STAR, Wilmington, North Carolina, July 8, 1881
* President James A. Garfield shot (1st report)
* Charles J. Guiteau - assassin
The last column of the front page has heads: "ASSASSIN'S WORK" "President Garfield Shot" "Two Balls Enter His Person" "Dangerously Wounded" "Balls Not Yet Extracted" "May Possibly Recover" with the text taking the entire column.
Additional reports inside as well including an editorial: "The Voice of Lamentation".
Four pages, very discrete archival strengthening at the interior central fold, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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