Murdering the President

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didnt linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the worlds first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfields body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bells efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfields friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nations twentieth president. But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life-second-degree murder-rather than ineptitude led to Garfields drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bells own correspondence the long list of Blisss criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.