Alexander Graham Bell Tried to Save a Dying James Garfield—But a Doctor’s Ego Stopped Him

Netflix’s Death by Lightning reveals how Alexander Graham Bell built a device that could have saved President Garfield—until ego got in the way.

‘Death By Lightning’ Ending Explained: How Accurate Is Netflix’s Historical Drama About James Garfield and Charles Guiteau?

Over the course of the show’s four hour-long episodes, we learn about Guiteau’s time in a free love colony, Garfield’s bananas path to the Presidency, Alexander Graham Bell’s (Richard Rankin) early metal detector, among even more unbelievable details. “It seemed way too crazy to be true,” Death By Lightning creator Mike Makowsky told DECIDER.

Netflix Dramatizes Garfield’s Assassination; Yoko Ono’s ‘Music of the Mind’ Opens at The Broad

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 solo museum exhibition in Southern California,
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Who was the real Lucretia Garfield? Inside the forgotten life of a fleeting First Lady

Lucretia Garfield, also known as Crete, was the wife of US President James A Garfield and served briefly as First Lady in 1881. She was admired for her stoic devotion during the president’s long illness that followed his wounding by assassin Charles Guiteau (as depicted in the Netflix drama Death by Lightning),
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