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    Whose trial became a circus with him ranting (his attorney argued he was insane, but the jury found him guilty)?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    Who died at the same hospital where the President that he killed was pronounced dead?Presidential Assassinations

      Oswald. Just a couple days later.

    Who was a wild child and shot cats and dogs for fun?Presidential Assassinations

      Booth.

    Who was a favorite of the ladies due to his dashing good looks?Presidential Assassinations

      Booth.

    Who was described as being fair haired, slender, with a somewhat vacant expression and suffered a breakdown prior to the assassination?Presidential Assassinations

      Czolgosz.

    Why was Oswald discharged from the Marines?Presidential Assassinations

      hardship.

    Who planned to kill the president earlier, but backed down when he saw the president's wife with him?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    Who first planned to kidnap the president?Presidential Assassinations

      Booth.

    Who was initially arrested for the murder of J.D. Tippit?Presidential Assassinations

      Oswald. Tippit was a police officer. The assumption is he was trying to arrest Oswald after he heard about the shooting and a description of the wanted man.

    Who was a self-proclaimed anarchist?Presidential Assassinations

      Czolgosz.

    Which president did Alexander Graham Bell try to help with an electric device?Presidential Assassinations

      Garfield. He used the device to try to locate the bullet in Garfield's back. However, Garfield probably died from the infection resulting from the doctors sticking their fingers in the wound without gloves or washing.

    Who shouted, 'I am a Stalwart,' after assassinating the president and had a cab waiting to take him to jail?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    Which president has a museum detailing his assassination called The Sixth Floor Museum?Presidential Assassinations

      Kennedy. The floor of the Texas School Book Depository where the shots were supposedly fired in Dallas.

    Who lived the longest of any of the assassins after his horrible act...nine months?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    Whose last words were, 'Useless, useless'?Presidential Assassinations

      Booth.

    Who was the first assassinated president to be buried at Arlington Cemetery?Presidential Assassinations

      Kennedy.

    Who arranged Kennedy's fateful trip to Dallas?Presidential Assassinations

      Lyndon Johnson.

    Which assassin's wife divorced him for cruelty?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    Who whispered, 'My wife, be careful, Cortel you, how you tell her, oh, be careful'?Presidential Assassinations

      McKinley.

    Who came from a family of clearly psychotic people (his father believed himself to be immortal)?Presidential Assassinations

      Guiteau.

    How many were convicted of conspiracy to kill Lincoln?Presidential Assassinations

      8. David E. Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Paine, and Mary Surratt were hung. Dr. Samuel Mudd (who was undoubtedly innocent), Edward Spangler (theater stage hand), and Lincoln's boyhood friends, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin were imprisoned. O'Laughlin died in prison in 1867. President Johnson pardoned Arnold, Mudd, and Spangler in 1869.

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