The Californian Who Tried to Save A President
By C. MacDonald
Happy President’s Day! Three California Presidents have lived in California—Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. Nixon (who was born here) and Reagan are buried at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley. Former President Barack Obama recently purchased a home in Rancho Mirage, so the number of ex-presidents presence in The Golden State keeps on growing.
But this is an article about another President, James A. Garfield (born and buried in Ohio) and a man who tried to save his life. Garfield had been shot in a Washington D.C. railway station on July 2, 1881. An assassin’s bullets was lodged within an inch or two of the President’s spine — and that’s where inventor Charles Sumner Tainter of San Diego stepped in to help find the bullet for surgical removal. Read the story..>
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