On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad depot in Washington ...
Garfield chose to take a stand on the issue closest to his heart: the fate of ex-slaves in the South. James Garfield (Shuler Hensley): Gentlemen, ideas outlive men. Ideas outlive all human things.