Charles J. Guiteau of "I am Going to the Lordy" in the musical's song "The Ballad of Guiteau". In the "American Dad!" episode "Garfield and Friends", Hayley Smith uses Guiteau's DNA to revive him. She uses him like a bloodhound to track down a revived Garfield. Actor Will Janowitz plays Guiteau in the PBS documentary American Experience: Murder of a President. Notes Further reading Charles J. Guiteau Charles Julius Guiteau (; September 8, 1841June 30, 1882) was an American writer and lawyer who was convicted of the assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Guiteau falsely believed he
James G. Blaine Hawaii. His plans for the United States' involvement in the world stretched even beyond the Western Hemisphere, as he sought commercial treaties with Korea and Madagascar. On July 2, 1881, Blaine and Garfield were walking through the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington when Garfield was shot by an assassin, Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau, a deranged man who had earlier pestered Blaine and other State Department officials to be appointed to ambassadorships for which he was grossly unqualified, believed that by assassinating the President he could ingratiate himself with Vice President Arthur and receive his