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.
Stand, is that you?
(shh)
Thanks. Feel free to pick a side and engage the enemy.
I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve read a post and gone, “WHAT THE HELL?...Oh, it’s Laz”
Do you have a propensity to crush fledgling Republics? Do you like to start needless wars in the name of preservation? If not, then you are probably not related.
Gohlee Wally, you got me again.
Now be honest, did I hit the nail on the head in post#63 or what!
Amazing things about Abraham Lincoln come to light when you consider the Kennedy assassination
Both presidents were elected to the presidency in ‘60.
Both presidents were elected to the United States House of Representatives in ‘46.
Both successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson born in ‘08.
Both presidents were shot in the head.
Both presidents were shot in presence of their wives.
Both presidents were shot on a Friday.
Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Ford car; a Lincoln limousine.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre. Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas.
Both Oswald and Booth were killed before they could be put on trial.
Lincoln and Kennedy each have 7 letters.
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each have 15 letters and 3 words.
There are 6 letters in each Johnson’s first name.
Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse, while Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater...
GREAT MEN REPEAT THEMSELVES
As recited by Jethro Burns, on the Homer & Jethro album “Wanted for Murder” (1966)
This is a strange but true story that proves that great en indeed repeat themselves, that greatness indeed follows the same pattern.
The facts depicted here are strange almost to the point of incredibility.
Both of the great men we will tell you about are concerned with the triumph of good over the black forces of evil. Both of these great men are rich, and both of these great men have searching blue eyes.
The name Lyndon contains 6 letters.
The name Batman contains 6 letters.
At Batman’s side stands the Boy Wonder.
At Lyndon’s side stands the Wonder Boy.
The names Robin and Hubie each contain 5 letters.
The names Washington and Gotham City each contain 10 letters.
The names Riddler and Wallace each contain 7 letters.
The names Mr. Robert S. McNamara and Commissioner Gordon each contain 18 letters.*
The name Castro lacks one letter having the same number as Penguin.
The names The Bat Plane and Air Force One each contain 11 letters.
Batman’s Batmobile is in reality an experimental model Lincoln Continental.
Lyndon’s Lincoln Continental is in reality an experimental Batmobile.
Behind the Caped Crusader stands a young bird named Robin.
Behind the Tall Texan stands an old crusader named Byrd.
Bank robbers tremble when Batman spreads his net,
And bank presidents tremble with what Lyndon nets from his spread.
If you subtract the year of Lyndon’s birth, which is 1908, from the year he graduated from high school, which is 1924, you get 16.
Add 16 to 36, because Lyndon is the 36th president, and you get 52.
There are 52 weeks in a year, 7 days in a week.
Add 2 for the number of family beagle hounds and you get 9.
The square root of 9 is 3.
Divide this by a wife and two daughters and you get 1,
And there is only one Batman.
Look up 'metaphor', idiot.
Your jumping back to Jefferson is no different than jumping to today. I’m not bashing Lincoln. I’m stating facts. Why don’t you do a little research for yourself? I am just amazed at how our little POTUS likes to hold himself up like he’s Lincoln resurrected knowing full well that his followers don’t know any better. But perhaps POTUS doesn’t know any better-he did think the US has 57 states.
I am not sure you understand, to me a little ‘r’ republican believes in the republican concept of governemnt. Nothing to do with the RINO party of today.
Before you ask me for the day off, consider:
There are 365 days in the year. You sleep 8 hours a day. That’s 122 days. 365 days minus 122 days = 243 days.
You also have 8 hours non-sleep time off every day.
That’s 122 days. 243 days minus 122 days = 121 days.
There are 52 Sundays that you do not work at all.
121 days minus 52 days = 69 days.
You get Saturday afternoon off, this is 52 half-days
That’s 26 days. 69 days minus 26 days = 43 days.
You get an hour off for lunch, which when totalled is 16 Days.
43 days minus 16 days = 27 days.
You get at least 20 days vacation every year, so that leaves 7 days.
You get 6 legal holidays during the year.
Which leaves only one day.
One day left you can work.
AND I WILL BE DAMNED IF I’LL GIVE YOU THE ONE DAY YOU CAN WORK, OFF!
Nothing in the dictionary.
Yeah. You're condemning Lincoln for positions you think he held, but which you give other historical figures a free ride on. That's bashing by any definition of the word.
Why don’t you do a little research for yourself?
I leave doing little or no research to folks like you. I prefer to do a lot of research.
am just amazed at how our little POTUS likes to hold himself up like he’s Lincoln resurrected knowing full well that his followers don’t know any better.
Obama isn't fit to carry Lincoln's chamber pot. But I notice how Lost Causers love to make the comparison.
Racist!
Metaphoridiot, I like it. Should be a word IMO.
Jefferson Davis was much more enlightened. He thought any black man was perfectly suited to carry his chamber pot or perform any other duty his "owner" thought fit.
Then that should raise me up in your eyes, shouldn't it?
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