The Doctor That Killed a President - July 2, 1881

On July 2, 1881, a delusional office-seeker shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington train station. The bullet was survivable. Garfield lived for seventy-nine agonizing days, but not because of the gunshot. The man who actually killed the president was the doctor in charge, and he never spent a day in court. This episode examines the three people responsible for one death: an assassin, a physician, and a political system so corrupt it manufactured its own murderers.