Mike Makowsky discusses adapting the little-known story of Garfield, Charles Guiteau and Chester A. Arthur — and finding the dark comedy in America’s strangest presidential succession. By Tony Maglio ...

At the beginning of the Netflix limited series “Death by Lightning,” about the rise and fall of President James Garfield in 1880–81, his soon-to-be assassin tries to excuse his checkered past before ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... As we’re still receiving updates about last year’s two attempted assassinations on Donald Trump, Netflix has a new miniseries about the ...

Interest in the short career and assassination of President James Garfield has been sparked by a popular Netflix series. Cincinnati has a statue of Garfield, erected to memorialize the slain president ...

On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau, a crazed and disgruntled office seeker who believed President James Garfield (1831–1881) owed him a position in the government, fired two shots from a British Bulldog ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Makowsky has a confession to make. Prior to creating the Netflix limited series Death by Lightning, James Garfield was never ...

Death by Lightning is a gripping drama about the assassination of President James Garfield, spiced with F-bombs and tawdry sex, not a heavy-handed civics lesson. Yet the four-episode Netflix ...

When I was growing up on Garfield Street in New Orleans, the joke, albeit insensitive to its subject, was that I was on the block that was a “dead end, just like James Garfield’s presidency.” For the ...