Portrait of an Assassin
Description
This timeless story of scheming and lies tells about Charles Guiteau and his big dream to help get President Garfield into office, plus how he later shot and killed the President at a Washington DC train station.
This classic tale of intrigue and deception recounts the life of Charles Guiteau and his grandiose plan of getting President Garfield elected, as well as his subsequent assassination at a DC train station by Guiteau's hand.
, based on actual historical facts and documents. Fast-talking and full of schemes for success in America, Charles Guiteau believes himself on the way to the top when he marries Anna, a wealthy lawyer’s niece. But the marriage sours as the pair flee creditors from city to city. Guiteau flings himself into politics with visions of earning a grand appointment. He is crushed when his candidate, James Garfield, ignores him after the successful campaign. Guitreau feels betrayed, and his deadly response makes history.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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