The Presidential Assassination Nobody Talks About

I completely forgot this was about a presidential assassination like 6 minutes in

He didnt even kill the guy who actually insulted him.

Shot by Guiteau, but killed by his doctors. The autopsy showed there was already a protective cyst being formed around the bullet, but they worried more about the non-threat of "lead poisoning" than they did about their absolutely filthy surgical practices. Besides the insanity plea, I think the defense attorney went for the killed-by-doctors angle, too.

A lot of this makes sense once you realize that two major symptoms of late stage syphilis are insanity and personality disturbances.

"The video was gonna be way too long" How dare you assume we'd want less o'nella

I love how as a child he's still depicted with a beard.

fun fact: Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, who was the Secretary of War at the time, was next to Garfield during the assasination. also, he once almost died from being crushed by a train car when Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother, saved him, while traveling with his friend, John T. Ford.

Guiteau is one of the most interesting characters in the Sondheim musical Assassins, which is about everyone who ever attempted or succeeded in assassinating a U.S president. Guiteau is framed as comic relief the entire show, but then he’s one of four who actually succeeded. His song, “The Ballad of Guiteau,” has this both creepy and optimistic vibe at the same time, and if you’re into American history and/or theater I really suggest you check it out!

"Hey man, ever heard of Hitler?" "No, who's him?" "That guy that killed Hitler." "Ohh that guy"

"He killed garfield" Me: that bastard john arbuckle, he finally did it

Someone described him as an “1800’s Chris-Chan” and that couldn’t be anymore accurate

I kinda wish Garfield just gave him what he wanted. His escapades as an ambassador to another country would be utterly priceless

Kills man to become famous. *The presidential assassination that nobody talks about.

Should’ve just given him the role of informer of deer

I know I’m super late on this cuz I just got into Sam’s videos but the other assisination was probably president McKinley by Leon Czolgosz. (Just as a disclaimer I got all my info on Wikipedia which “isn’t a credible source” but sue me) - was a polish American born in may 1873 - mom died at 10 during child birth - became a factory worker at 17 - economic hardships pushed him to Catholic Church - went to live with dad on a big farm - did fuck all to help with maintaining farm - fought with step mom about religion - left his dad to become a recluse - became a socialist - then became an anarchist - found out about an assassination on an Italian leader - thought “that’s not a half bad idea, this’ll solve all of my economic problems and help the country. I’m such a noble guy” - went to the pan American exposition in Buffalo ny (my home town :) ) in 1901 - bought a pistol - just walked up to the president and shot him twice (first shot ricocheted off his jacket button and second was non fatal gut shot) - just like Garfield they examined the president and expedited the infection - Leon was tried days after the president died - defense tried to claim insanity but it was denied because he put so much work into making sure the pistol worked and was properly concealed during the assassination. They said no insane man would commit murder in such a public place knowing that they would be caught - convicted of first degree murder - had two visits before getting the electric chair; first his father Fudzinski and Father Hickey went to see him but was refused twice before being let to him. They brought being a clergy man early in the day who pleaded with him for 45 min to repent but he refused. - the other was with his brother and brother in law who asked him why he did it to which he said “No one. Nobody had anything to do with it but me." They didn’t think this was like him and it’s not how he was raised so they asked if he wanted the preacher to come back. When asked he said "No, damn them. Don't send them here again. I don't want them," and "Don't you have any praying over me when I am dead. I don't want it. I don't want any of their damned religion." - was sent to the chair where his last words were “I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people – the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. I am sorry I could not see my father." (Presumably talking about his biological father idk how these two “fathers” were related to him but it’s probably some fucky Wikipedia shit) - got three shocks and died - brothers were at execution and wanted to take the body but were deterred because the people performing the execution said “the crowd wouldn’t let them leave the building with the body or else they would get mobbed and hav ethe body stolen presumably to be horribly defiled Mussolini style - the authorities autopsied him and found that he was super unhealthy and had gross STD warts on his junk - they planned to burry him in the prison but wanted to decompose the body quickly so nobody could dig him up and worship him - the authorities looked at him body and was like “hey this quicklime stuff works great at decomposing flesh (as seen with this piece of meat we tested it in earlier) and we’re legally allowed to use as much of it as we want but you know what is even better at dissolving stuff? Sulfuric acid. So they dumped a vat of acid on him horribly disfiguring his corpse and after 12 hours was completely melted. They then burned his cloths and called it a day. - after his death an anarchist writer was accused of helping the assassination but was let go to insufficient evidence - she wrote saying that McKinley was a “President of money kings and trust magnates” in an article called “ The Tragedy of Buffalo” but it was tossed aside because the whole anarchist movement was tarnished by Leon’s actions - Leon was “buried” in Cayuga county NY in an unmarked grave with only writing being “Fort Hill Remains" I doubt anybody actually read through all that but it was a fun way to add what I can to the void that is YouTube comments (on a video that’s 2+ years old (I don’t want to check exactly cuz then I’d have to delete this mini thesis)). Thanks to whoever got this far and if you want to read more about it there’s a horribly boring book I had to read in highschool about all this called “Devil in the White City” which is split between H.H. Holmes’s story (the actual interesting part of the book) and the American exposition which leads into Leon’s story. Alright now time to work on finals shit :))))))))))))))))))) (I want to die) Edit (“literally” 20 seconds after posting) I probably didn’t get all the information and probably got shit wrong. If I willfully wanted to spread misinformation I’d go back to before Twitter blue was canceled. I did the best a half hour of reading could do.

Charles Giteau is a man who somehow failed every sidequest possible.

imagine going to a hanging and the victim starts reading his fanfiction about himself

“What is the capital of Michigan?” ”...M?”

Syphilis can emerge later after it "disappears" as neruo-spyphilis, which can lead to brain damage. So while it might not have MADE him batshit insane, it certainly didn't help

Charles couldn’t even murder properly, the dang doctors did it for him and he got all the credit!