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 ...

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 ...

James A. Garfield's great-great-grandson welcomes the modern spotlight. He just wishes they didn't have his great-great-grandmother tossing an F-bomb.

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 ...

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 ...

Death by Lightning remains fairly loyal to the true story of President James A. Garfield’s assassination, but it does remove these ten major details. Netflix’s new historical thriller delves into the ...

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, ...

"What line of work are you in?" "Politics." Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for their upcoming mini-series titled Death by Lightning, a fascinating tale of American history. It is the ...

The community can join widow and former First Lady Lucretia R. Garfield, portrayed by Debbie Weinkamer, for a free program at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at Morley Library, 184 Phelps St. in Painesville.