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<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>CHARLES GUITEAU:<br> PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSIN</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="charles_guiteau_ch1.htm"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch2.htm">2. ERSTWHILE LAWYER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch3.htm">3. THE PLOT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch4.htm">4. THE ASSASSINATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch5.htm">5. WHERE IS THE BULLET?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch6.htm">6. DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch7.htm">7. A MURDER TRIAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch8.htm">8. WAS HE INSANE?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch9.htm">9. A DEATH SENTENCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charles_guiteau_ch10.htm">10. DEATH BY HANGING</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">I have just shot the President. I shot him several times,<br> as I wished him to go as easily as possible...I am going<br> to the jail. Please order out your troops and take<br> possession of the jail at once.</i> <p>Charles Guiteau<br> <a href="http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f133}1.htm#id42706" target="_blank">to</a> General William Tecumseh Sherman<br><br> July 2, 1881</b></font></p></div></b> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Was <a href="http://www.wrhs.org/lawnfield/images/guiteau.gif" target="_blank"><b>Charles Guiteau</b></a>, the man who shot President <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/6/23/06-2239a.gif" target="_blank"><b>James Garfield</b></a>, insane? At the time of <a href="http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/una/ill/gu2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>the shooting</b></a> - the morning of July 2, 1881 - the assassin’s mental state mattered little to most Americans.</p> <p>The real issue was: Will the President live?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="charles_guiteau_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>