and the second is the other main character in our story, charles guiteau, and it shows the failure ofur mental health treatment in this country then and today. there is no doubt in my mind that charles guiteau was mentally ill and it was not treated properly then even though they knew. as well discuss, for example, they told his father he needs to bestutionlized. he's nuts. and the father agreed. but he said you know putting people in sanitariums, you have to pay. and the father said i can't afford it so they didn't institutionalize him. again, the contrast between garfield and his assassin is so astounding. last week when we were discussing lincoln after the talk, a gentleman came up to me and asked me to recommend a book at each of the subsequent talks. i didn't do that last week. my failure. and so i was asked when he said that, i thought that was a very good idea. and obviously when you prepare talks like this, i use lots and lots and lots of sources. secondary sources, books, and primary sources. a lot of the primary sources are now available on the internet. so you can read the

time to move on to charles guiteau's trial. the case of the united states versus charles guiteau, began in november of 1881, less than two months after garfield's death. america's greatest fear was that guiteau would be let off, that he would be able to have a plea of insanity and that they would let him off. the insanity defense was known at the time and was used, and they were quite fearful. for quite a while guiteau could not find an attorney to represent him, because no one wanted to represent the assassin of a president. so finally he got george scoville to represent him. he what's married to guiteau's sister, frances, whom he had tried to attack with an ax. that's not who you want as your attorney. scoville was a patent attorney. he had never tried a criminal case. that's also not what you want. but he was also the only attorney willing to take the case. scoville said, if i did not think the unfortunate man insane, i would not have represented him at all. as hard as it was to find an attorney, it was equally hard to find