I'm reading Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation and while trying to find where the old Francklyn Cottage was in Long Branch, NJ (where President Garfield died; I think Vowell might tell me, but I'm not at that part yet), I found this cool website of old prints chronicling Garfield's death.
Hat tip to Annabelle for bringing up the story a couple of months ago and reminding me to read this book. (I hope she doesn't mind the pseudonym I gave her!)
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Let me know if you find out--always wanted to know.
The marker is "across the way" from the St. James Chapel (aka Church of the Presidents), which is now a historical museum.
We should check it out.
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