The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

At 9.30 a.m. on July 2, 1881 at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington DC.

James Garfield, President of the United States, was fatally shot.

It's an event that, quite frankly, really doesn't get the attention that other political assassinations have received.

The story behind how and why it happened, however, is as fascinating as any in American history.

Learn more about the assassination of President Garfield and his assassin Charles Guttow on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sure, we're all dying to get back out on the road again, so maybe it's a really good time to look at the myths

cliches and assumptions that we tend to make about travel. I'm longtime travel

journalist Sput Hilton and in the new podcast Grounded I'll explore topics such as why it makes good sense to get

lost. The marketing myth of living like a local, why it's better when tour guides

make up history, why most travel media only see Africa through its animals, and why travel is

always more interesting when something goes wrong. Join me for these and other topics

on Grounett, available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify under the inappropriate traveler label and at

Inappropriate Traveler.com.

James Garfield doesn't rank very high in the list of the greatest American

presidents if for no other reason that he wasn't president for very long.

He was shot only four months after taking office and died about two months after that.

There was very little in the way of policy that could be attributed to him as president because

of his short tenure.

During his administration, he mostly appointed cabinet officials and managed to reappoint a Supreme Court Justice

who the Senate didn't act upon in the previous Rutherford B. Hayes administration.

Garfield was born in Ohio and raised on a farm.

His father died when he was only two and he was raised by his mother.

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