WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Death By Lightning.

Death By Lightning has arrived on Netflix , chronicling the extraordinary true events surrounding assassin Charles Guiteau's fate.

The 1881-set drama explores the remarkable trajectory of James Garfield (portrayed by Michael Shannon), who served as America's 20th President.

Merely half a year into Garfield's tenure, unsuccessful solicitor and presidential obsessive Charles Guiteau ( Matthew Macfadyen ) discharged two bullets at Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, DC.

As a result, President James Garfield succumbed to his injuries two months afterwards, plunging the nation into grief.

Guiteau maintained it was a "political necessity", insisting that God had commanded him to assassinate the President

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