https://www.c-span.org/video/?445754-1/remembering-president-james-garfield
Matthew Gilmore, who edits a Washington, D.C., history blog, talked about the complicated and controversial building of a memorial to President James Garfield on the U.S. Capitol grounds. Mr. Garfield was shot in July 1881 by a disgruntled office seeker and died from his wounds the following September. The United States Capitol Historical Society hosted this event.
Presentation to US Capitol Historical Society based on: Memories Fade: Washington’s most memorialized (and least known) President
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