Murdering the PresidentShortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didnt linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the worlds first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfields body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bells efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the