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James A. Garfield's great-great-grandson welcomes the modern spotlight. He just wishes they didn't have his ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning, which premiered Thursday, revisits the “epic and stranger-than-fiction true story” of President James A. Garfield, who served only four months in office before being ...

Death by Lightning was an unexpected project that performed extremely well on Netflix, given its somewhat random subject matter, the exploration of the assassination of James Garfield, and the fact ...

There are very few things that I love more in this world than a scandalous political period drama and my boy Matthew Macfadyen. I swear, I’d pay to watch the Succession star staring blankly at paint ...

"This is a true story about two men the world forgot," reads the text preceding the first issue of Death by Lightning. "One was the 20th President of the United States. The other shot him." That might ...

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down by an assassin's bullet. Abraham Lincoln's 1865 slaying at the hands of John ...

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American politics continue to be as omnipresent as they are endlessly divisive. It's easy to feel that progress is going backwards in these trying times, which is why some look to the past to glean ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Netflix’s miniseries “Death by Lightning” has officially dropped on the streamer, and it tells the true story of President James Garfield’s election and his tragic assassination. The limited series is ...