Something for the Charles Guiteau Collectors on here

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Yea, I know it is a small group of us interested in Guiteau. I have always been fascinated by the four Presidential assassinations in our history. Guiteau was the second man to assassinate a U.S. President when he shot James Garfield in 1881.

But this recent pick up of a five card set detailing Guiteau's life is just cool -- in a morbid way. By all accounts, Guiteau was batshit crazy. His assassinated Garfield because he felt the new President did not adequately appreciate all the efforts Guiteau made to get him elected. Guiteau made speeches extolling the virtues of Garfield and fully expected a consulship in return. When that did not happen, Guiteau shot Garfield.

The Oneida card is in reference to the upstate New York utopian religious cult where Guiteau lived for five years. The residents of the Oneida Community practiced free love. But as the picture demonstrates, the female residents of Oneida had little interest in free love with Guiteau.

Guiteau incorrectly believed that new President Chester Arthur would be so grateful to Guiteau for making him President that the new President would pressure the Supreme Court into hearing his court appeal. Chester Arthur did no such thing, and Guiteau went to the gallows on June 30, 1882.