PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and RANDOM HOUSE

invite you to the premiere screening of
Murder of a President

Please join the cast and filmmakers

Shuler Hensley
Kathryn Erbe

Rob Rapley
Director
Mark Samels
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE executive producer

and
Candice Millard
author of Destiny of a Republic

ABOUT THE FILM

Based on Candice Millard’s best-seller, Murder of a President is the story of James A. Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, his shooting by a deluded madman named Charles Guiteau, and its bizarre and tragic aftermath. Featuring Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley as Garfield, Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) as his beloved wife Lucretia, and Will Janowitz (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) as the assassin, the sweeping and dramatic story of Garfield’s life combines science and medicine, party politics and love.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Murder of a President premieres Tuesday, February 2 at 9pm on WNET and PBS stations nationwide.

WHEN
Thursday, January 28, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
WHERE
Directors Guild of America – 110 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Organizer of Premiere Screening of MURDER OF A PRESIDENT

For more than twenty-seven years American Experience has been the nations’s most-watched television series. It has been hailed as “peerless” (Wall Street Journal), “the most consistently enriching program on television” (Chicago Tribune), and “a beacon of intelligence and purpose” (Houston Chronicle). On air and online, the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards and 17 George Foster Peabody Awards; the series received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 for Last Days in Vietnam.

Exclusive corporate funding for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance.Major funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Major funding for Murder of a President provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence. Additional funding provided by the Documentary Investment Group: Gretchen Stone Cook Charitable Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Public Television Viewers. American Experience is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.