Death of a President (2006 film) a man of the president's age", is a reference to President Ronald Reagan's own assassination attempt. In addition, the interview of a middle-aged African American outside the hospital recalls an interview of a witness on the streets of Washington, D.C. in 1981 following that assassination attempt. Filming was done entirely on location in Chicago, Illinois. The film score was composed and conducted by Richard Harvey. Sound effects and music elements were mixed by Alex Riordan. The film's director, Gabriel Range, noted that the film is not "a leftist jeremiad" and further said: The purpose of the film was not to
Assassination of James A. Garfield bill collecting, and time in the utopian Oneida Community. He wrote a speech in support of Ulysses S. Grant called "Grant vs. Hancock". Grant was the early front runner for the Republican nomination for president in the election of 1880, but he lost to Garfield. Guiteau then revised his speech to "Garfield vs. Hancock", and he tried to sign on as a campaigner for the Republican ticket. However, he never delivered the speech in a public setting, but printed it and distributed several hundred copies. The speech was ineffective, even in written form; he had made a hurried but incomplete