When President James A. Garfield was shot at a Washington, D.C., train station in July 1881 — just four months into his presidency — no one could have predicted that his death would take months to ...

Garfield, from Orange Township (now Moreland Hills), Ohio, is not one of the presidents Cincinnati can claim. But he does ...

The President James A. Garfield assassination is back, thanks to the Netflix series Death by Lightning. Garfield’s character foil is Charles Guiteau, who shot Garfield in 1881, four months into his ...

The show is based on Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard, and she is looking forward to the series. "I could not be more excited about ...

Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series he’s created, ...

Anxiety over political violence is filling the air, and the distress should never be downplayed. But it’s also worth noting that, like most things, it’s nothing new. If you seek a reminder, look no ...

I am going to be honest here, I had no idea how soon into his presidency James Garfield was assassinated, and I for sure didn’t know the name of his assassin. That ignorance is what Death by Lightning ...

Assassins lying in wait, political corruption, drunken vice presidential nominees: Is Netflix's "Death by Lightning" a wild invention of Hollywood, or was 19th century political history actually this ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning dramatizes the life and assassination of President James A. Garfield, starring Michael Shannon as Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his killer. Meanwhile, Yoko Ono’s first ...

India, Nov. 5 -- When someone says "death by lightning," it's reasonable to presume that they are referring to a lightning bolt from the sky. The kind of bleak, dramatic scene where human ambition, ...