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Wow. Politics was even more cut throat back then than in our own time. We are general wusses compared to these old guys. ;)
Boy, that Booth family was sure hard to please when it came to Presidents. hehe.
I kid, I kid.
All in all, this was an interesting historical “event”. Thank you very much for posting.
Jackson was pretty much a badass from what I’ve read. Not someone I’d want to threaten.
Junius Brutus Booth is thought to reside, so to speak, at the Dock Street Theater in Charleston, SC. Perhaps he would be willing to authenticate the letter, be careful I understand he was subject to drunken rages.
I just posted this on another thread and thought it might be interesting here, too (since I just saw this one...)...
Assassinations and Attempts from the beginning of the Republic to now...
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Andrew Jackson — January 30, 1835
Abraham Lincoln — February 23, 1861
Abraham Lincoln — April 14, 1865; died April 15, 1865
James A. Garfield — July 2, 1881; died September 19, 1881
William McKinley — September 6, 1901; died September 14, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt — October 13, 1912
Franklin D. Roosevelt — February 15, 1933 (one month before being sworn in for his first term in office)
Harry S. Truman — November 1, 1950
John F. Kennedy — December 11, 1960
John F. Kennedy — April 2, 1961 (reported assassination attempt, increased security)
John F. Kennedy — November 22, 1963; died same day
Richard Nixon — February 22, 1974
Gerald Ford — September 5, 1975
Gerald Ford — September 22, 1975
Jimmy Carter — May 5, 1979
Ronald Reagan — March 30, 1981
George H. W. Bush — April 13, 1993
Bill Clinton — September 12, 1994
Bill Clinton — October 29, 1994
George W. Bush — February 7, 2001
George W. Bush — September 11, 2001
George W. Bush — May 10, 2005