Netflix’s ‘Death by Lightning’ Reopens the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield

Netflix’s ‘Death by Lightning’ Reopens the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield

Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells the story of James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. President whose 1881 assassination changed America forever.

Death by Lightning: Netflix Resurrects the Strange and Forgotten Tragedy of President Garfield

In the annals of American history, presidential assassinations immediately bring to mind the names of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. However, the story of James A. Garfield, the nation’s 20th president, has long remained a footnote, an overshadowed chapter in the collective consciousness. The new Netflix limited series, Death by Lightning, presents itself as an act of historical exhumation, determined to bring to light one of the most unus…