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Lincoln is shot
history channel ^ | 4/15/2010 | history channel

Posted on 04/14/2010 5:54:59 AM PDT by central_va

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces.

In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater on April 14, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray.

On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Seward's home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 10 p.m., Booth entered Lincoln's private theater box unnoticed and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]–the South is avenged!" Although Booth broke his leg jumping from Lincoln's box, he managed to escape Washington on horseback.

The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Ford's Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died–the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was buried on May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Illinois.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; greatestpresident; greatestpressident; lincolnbooth; secession
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To: cowboyway

BINGO!


141 posted on 04/14/2010 1:39:37 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: cowboyway
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142 posted on 04/14/2010 1:42:12 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: Lazamataz
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143 posted on 04/14/2010 1:45:06 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: Non-Sequitur

You’re Lincoln obsession is freaky,,, seriously, it is. He’s like your idol. How odd.


144 posted on 04/14/2010 1:48:48 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: Non-Sequitur
So, now you are a yankee apologist turned mind reader?

You were better at the former.

145 posted on 04/14/2010 1:49:52 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: Non-Sequitur
Obama isn't fit to carry Lincoln's chamber pot. _____________ OMG.... Photobucket
146 posted on 04/14/2010 1:49:53 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: mojitojoe
Kind of like this guy.

So are both of them evil, vile, racist people? Both Lincoln and the author of the quote in my reply 35?

147 posted on 04/14/2010 1:51:06 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: PeaRidge
So, now you are a yankee apologist turned mind reader?

Nope. Poking holes in Southron hypocrisy is just a hobby.

148 posted on 04/14/2010 1:52:50 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Your posting frequency belies your hobby claim.


149 posted on 04/14/2010 1:54:04 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: Idabilly

150 posted on 04/14/2010 1:57:10 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: mojitojoe

N-S is having a bad day today. Making alot of mistakes. He is off his game.


151 posted on 04/14/2010 2:14:18 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: cowboyway; rockrr
Try rockrr's dictionary. I'm sure there will be a complete definition including a picture of you and rockrr wearing your moronic grins.

Why look! There I am!


152 posted on 04/14/2010 2:15:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: mojitojoe
My response awaits....
153 posted on 04/14/2010 2:22:26 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Non-Sequitur

No


154 posted on 04/14/2010 2:29:32 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: central_va

He never had a game in the first place. He just a little, old numbnuts guy who is a mastercopyandpaster.


155 posted on 04/14/2010 2:31:17 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: mac_truck
McVeigh was born in Lockport, New York. Just another yankee Terrorist. Just like Lincoln, Sherman, and his hired assassins, they sent down South committing acts of terror.

I'll leave your sniveling little yankees with their torches for another time.....

156 posted on 04/14/2010 2:37:47 PM PDT by Idabilly (Oh, southern star how I wish you would shine.)
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To: mojitojoe

Just Lincoln then, huh? Surprise, surprise. </sarcasm>


157 posted on 04/14/2010 2:38:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: central_va
N-S is having a bad day today. Making alot of mistakes. He is off his game.

Legends in your own minds, the pair of you. Well heck, your whole cause and "culture" is based on fantasy, why not the rest of your life as well?

158 posted on 04/14/2010 2:40:56 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Lazamataz
Why look! There I am!

See. All you needed was a little direction.

BTW, it must get a bit crowded under NS's petticoats with you, rockrr, bubba and the rest of yankee coven using them for cover.

159 posted on 04/14/2010 2:48:01 PM PDT by cowboyway (Molon labe)
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To: Non-Sequitur
140+ years and counting. We're still here. Y'all ain't whipped us yet.

Homer Pictures, Images and Photos

160 posted on 04/14/2010 3:12:45 PM PDT by Idabilly (Oh, southern star how I wish you would shine.)
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