AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:

A brain in a jar rolls out of a dusty storage bin as work crews are clearing the archives of the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "DEATH BY LIGHTNING")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Let's pick up the pace, fellas. Clear all this stuff on out of here.

RASCOE: This is the opening scene of the new Netflix miniseries "Death By Lightning." And the label on that jar of brains, it reads Charles J. Guiteau.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "DEATH BY LIGHTNING")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Who the [expletive] is Charles Guiteau?

RASCOE: Oh, so you asked that question too. Well, let me fill you in. In 1881, Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield, who was then just a few months in office. Garfield died several weeks later. "D

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