John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln (160 years ago today)

History.com ^ | 11/13/2009 | History.com Editors

[DFG]

[Fai Mao]

“But other than Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?”

[central_va]

Way to go Mrs. Lincoln. He needed to see that play like he needed another hole in his head.

[Ciaphas Cain]

YouTube video: Samuel Seymour, age 96, last surviving eyewitness to Lincoln's assassination, talking about it on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1956

[central_va]

[ryderann]

Was Lincoln’s wound such that he could have been saved by today’s abilities?

[GreenLanternCorps]

He was shot in the back of the head, possible, but I doubt it

[wally_bert]

If only Rex Hamilton was president then.....

[telescope115]

I saw this. I thought it was a good production.

[protoconservative]

“Was Lincoln’s wound such that he could have been saved by today’s abilities?”

Certianly. Yes. Long term impactful changes to Abes life.

The bidden presidency and Lincolns second term could then be ranked next to each other, along with the end of Wilson.

[HIDEK6]

Please stop it with the “historical present tense.”

Use of it confirms your ignorance.

[Deaf Smith]

Texas lore is that Booth escaped the union army dragnet to capture him and settled in Granbury, Texas.

[salmon76]

Democrats being Democrats

[BBB333]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATDhGrhyjU

Abe Lincoln and His Time Machine

[Freedom4US]

I think the claims by more than one individual to be JW Booth have been fairly well debunked.

But - there is some question as to whether the man shot in the barn was JW Booth. A lot of weird stuff, no photographs were taken of the dead Booth, none that were released anyway.

[PUGACHEV]

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.

[Redleg Duke]

And the DemocRATS have come full circle.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Can you imagine an assasin knowing Latin today?

Actors. People to lead.

[rxh4n1]

“Was Lincoln’s wound such that he could have been saved by today’s abilities?”

Probably not. Booth’s derringer fired a huge ball.