“But other than Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?”
Way to go Mrs. Lincoln. He needed to see that play like he needed another hole in his head.
Was Lincoln’s wound such that he could have been saved by today’s abilities?
Use of it confirms your ignorance.
Texas lore is that Booth escaped the union army dragnet to capture him and settled in Granbury, Texas.
Fords Theater is still open today, and producing plays, although I believe it is owned by the Park Service. In the recent past, when the president wanted to attend, the Secret Service would go over the top with his protection, including using a steel type of collapsible tunnel from the curb to the entrance for safety. They did not want the same thing to happen twice at the same place.
And the DemocRATS have come full circle.
Can you imagine an assasin knowing Latin today?
Actors. People to lead.
The writer got this wrong: “The president’s friend, Major Rathbone”. Rathbone was the escort for Mrs. Lincoln’s friend. The President had never met the major before.
He favored leniency towards them, and the radicals who took over after he was gone wanted vengeance for his death, and wanted to punish the South to the maximum extent.
He likely would have held back some of their worst impulses.
In 1991 wife and I spent 12 days in DC doing tourist stuff ( got a $25 a night fancy hotel room from the hotel company I worked at).
We visited Ford’s Theater. The “door” Boothe went through was supposedly the original. It was not. .
The “hole” Boothe shot him through was bored with a tool. It was perfectly round.
I commented to the guide, “man, Boothe was a good carver”.
She laughed. We all knew it was just a prop.
Just like the “bloody pillow” on his death bed.
The South would have probably been better served had Lincoln lived and Johnson died.