Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America
by Eric Rauchway
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BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Eric Rauchway, author of "Murdering McKinley," up top, I`d like to have do three things, explain three different attempted assassinations. The first one is Charles Guiteau, in 1881. What -- what -- does that have any connection with the McKinley assassination?
ERIC RAUCHWAY, AUTHOR, "MURDERING MCKINLEY: THE MAKING OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT`S AMERICA": Well, Guiteau shot Garfield on a train platform in 1881, with the idea that he was going to benefit the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Guiteau was, in all probability, a little bit unhinged, and had a bit of a circus of a trial, based on determining his responsibility for the crime, in which he represented himself, and then he was eventually hanged. And that influenced the McKinley assassination, inasmuch as it scared the dickens out of the prosecutors. They didn`t want to repeat that kind of circus and that problem again. And so they were determined to prosecute the assassin and do away with him fairly quickly, learning the lessons of the Guiteau case.
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LAMB: Do you happen to remember how old Guiteau was?
RAUCHWAY: I don`t, off the top of my head, no.
LAMB: Then the second assassination attempt was in 1892...
RAUCHWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ... which you write about in your book. Now, see, we had the first one in 1881...
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