MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 94 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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 didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield’s body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell’s efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield’s friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation’s 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 Garfield’s drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell’s own correspondence the long list of Bliss’s criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president. MURDERING THE PRESIDENT: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Locked Tothed Baby.
0:10.6	You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime history
0:16.1	and the authors that have written about them.
0:18.8	Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking
0:26.9	about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime history.
0:31.1	True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.
0:46.8	Good evening.
0:47.8	Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by
0:53.8	Charles Githel.
0:55.8	At contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn't linger and die.
1:01.8	He survived.
1:03.6	Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world's first metal detector to
1:08.0	locate the bullet in Garfield's body so that doctors could safely operate.
1:13.9	Despite Bell's effort to save Garfield, however, and has never before fully revealed the
1:18.6	interventions of Garfield's friend and doctor Dr. D. W. Bliss brought about the demise
1:24.6	of the nation's 20th president.
1:28.6	But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior?
1:33.2	Did politics, petty jealousy or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss to let him down
1:38.6	the path of homicide?
1:41.2	Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life, second degree murder rather than
1:45.4	ineptitude led to Garfield's drawn out and painful death.
1:49.8	Now more than 100 years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Zupansky, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dan Zupansky and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.