July 25, 1881
July 25, 1881
On the day
my grandfather C. W.
was born, the date being
the 24th day after would be
assassin, Charles Jules Guiteau, shot
down President
James A. Garfield.
The President, on that day,
July 2nd asked, “May I trouble you,
doctor, about my chances?” Seeing,
how ,eager & cheerful his patient was, he
answered one chance in a hundred. Not
in the least excited, the President
revealed;
“Then we will take that chance!”
He sent word to his wife
that he had been seriously hurt.
He also sent his love to her,
& she came to be with him on the second day
& on the 80th day he died.
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J.A.G.: last prez born in a log cabin,
shot by a crazy man who wanted to be consul to Paris, they hung him anyway.
Great piece
Thanks, HB for liking the poem.
Jim,
His claim was that he had nothing against
the president. He only did it to save
democracy.
As you noted, no one believed him.