The Netflix mini-series Death by Lightning will dive deep into the true story of President James A. Garfield’s assassination. The show will chronicle the life and death of the 20th U.S. president, ...

Interest in the northeast Ohio birthplace, homes and final resting place of President James A. Garfield has grown with the popularity of the four-part Netflix series, "Death by Lightning." There's ...

Many Americans may not be familiar with James Garfield’s brief presidency, let alone his brutal assassination. But Netflix aims to change that with its new miniseries Death by Lightning, which ...

Warning: This article includes minor spoilers for Death by Lightning! Netflix’s Death by Lightning shows that Lucretia Garfield stayed by her husband’s side until the very end, and this is what ...

Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series he’s created, ...

History has a way of forgetting, or at least overlooking. Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Far fewer are familiar with the story of Charles Guiteau, the man who, ...

Mike Makowsky opens Death by Lightning, a four-part miniseries he wrote and produced, with a chilling line: "This is a true story about two men the world forgot. One was the 20th president of the ...

Assassins lying in wait, political corruption, drunken vice presidential nominees: Is Netflix's "Death by Lightning" a wild invention of Hollywood, or was 19th century political history actually this ...

On July 2, 1881, United States president James A. Garfield waited at Washington, D.C.’s Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station to board a train that would take him to New England to begin his summer ...