Innocence: Describes a person who is simple in heart, straightforward in temperament, and unpretentious and hypocritical. This word is used in children, that is, innocent and lively, cute. But if it's used on some adults, it's bad.
In the 246-year history of the United States, a lawyer named Charles Giteo assassinated the 20th president of the United States, James Abram Garfield. The reason for the assassination was that the president rejected his request for office.
President Garfield and his family
In 1880, in the Republican primary of the United States, Garfield did not sign up for the election, and the competition was between former President Grant and former House speaker Brian, as well as Garfield's good friend John Sherman.
Strangely enough, there was a lot of disagreement within the party at the time, and there were no results in 33 votes, and by the 34th time, the surprise happened, and those who had supported Grant and Brian suddenly turned to Garfield, and most of them voted for him, and by the 36th time, Garfield had more votes than several other competitors, and in this way, he became the 20th president of the United States.
Becoming president was a joy to be had, but it also set the stage for his later assassination.
At that time, the Us political arena used a political fattening system, the president could appoint his own cronies and supporters to hold official positions, the drawbacks of this system were obviously very large, as soon as the new president came to power, there were many supporters who came to the office, and the private use of public power also caused the United States at that time to be very corrupt, some people supported this system, and many people opposed this system, so it was divided into two factions: diehards and reformers.
On March 4, 1881, Garfield appointed Brian as Secretary of State, and since Brian was a reformist, the die-hards were unhappy, and the rift between the two factions was growing.
And at this time, Charles Giteo appeared. Giteo, a lawyer in Chicago, was a supporter of the presidential campaign, and Giteo believed that he should hold some important position in President Garfield's government, so Giteo wrote to Garfield hoping that the president would make him the U.S. consul in Paris.
Considering Giteo's lack of seniority and no experience, Garfield refused his request.
The rejected Giteo had a crazy idea that if Garfield was killed, the diehards would reward him with a position for his credit.
After making up his mind, Giteo borrowed thirty dollars and went to Washington with a gun.
But he seemed to be a stupid kind man, because he had several chances to kill the president, but he gave up.
The first time he learned that the President was in Christ Church on Monte Avenue, he went there, and he chose to sit down in the back row of the President's seat, but because he was afraid of hurting innocent people, he decided to abandon the assassination.
The second time, Giteo followed President Garfield and the President's wife to the train station, and this time he did not do anything, because he was worried that the sick President's wife could not stand the stimulation.
The third time, he finally waited for an opportunity. This time, the president came to the Baltimore and Potomac train stations in Washington, D.C., with no guards around him, only the secretary of state accompanied him, and Gite o'clocked in the eye and immediately approached the president quietly and fired two shots at him in the back. And said to himself: I killed the president, this is my credit, you have to give me that position.
Originally, President Garfield's injuries were not serious, because neither of the two shots hit the key point, but the president was quite unlucky, although he was not hit, but the bullets left in his body could not be found, and the two bullets that could not be found caused Serious infection in Garfield's body, and two months later, he died. Garfield was president for only four months.
A year later, Charles Giteo, the murderer of President Garfield, was also hanged.
This assassin was probably a heartless eye, a terrible lack. However, there are also cute ones, such as Park Shu.
At that time, a teenager moved next door to Park Shu, and within a few days he asked Park Shu to borrow money, and Park Shu borrowed 300,000 yuan to the teenager without saying a word, and within a few days, the teenager disappeared with the money. And Park Shu did not go to him, until later Park Shu's relatives and friends learned about this matter, they went around inquiring about the whereabouts of the teenager, and later, people found it, but the money had long been spent. But Park Shu said a word: I tell you, you can't afford the money, don't come to see me.