Doctor's latest opinion: Lincoln had cancer when he was shot

Kansas City Star ^ | 11/26/07 | David Brown

[Huntress]

Interesting theory.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Marfans disease ?

[kinoxi]

He also suspects Lincoln was dying of cancer at the time he was assassinated, and was unlikely to have survived a year.

If he was that ill he may have opted to stayed home as opposed to going to see a play that night.

[org.whodat]

What difference does it make???

[Seruzawa]

Yawn. About as valid as the shrinks who try to diagnose Jesus.

[Graybeard58]

What difference does it make???

I didn't click the link to read the whole thing but you are right. It makes me wonder if maybe some tax payer money went to the person who reached this completely irrelevant conclusion.

[Graybeard58]

Probably another “smoking related death”.

I don’t know if Abe ever smoked but I’m sure he was exposed to the dreaded second hand smoke at some point in his life.

[webschooner]

So what's the upshot? Probably that John Wilkes Booth was really a nice guy, a good guy, who did Lincoln a favor by saving Honest Abe from all that suffering from cancer.

Maybe Dr. Sotos is a Lib and he likes to coddle criminals and find the good in every crime committed ... like when someone is murdered, that is less carbon dioxide emitted and less burden on the planet, so perhaps murderers perform a service.

Don't laugh too hard ... so runs the twisted minds of some Leftists.

[edcoil]

Other then that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

[macamadamia]

I thought Lincoln was killed by gay confederates because he said homosexuality was a life-choice and he refused to fund AIDS research.

[WoofDog123]

“So what’s the upshot?”

I doubt there is a direct political motive for this theory (besides funding), but historians do tend to investigate things for the oddest of reasons/interests, and maybe the researcher is just interested in the topic.

[CindyDawg]

Well just dig him up and run every test you can think of then

. Besides satisfying someone's curiosity, what is the purpose?

[webschooner]

I doubt there is a direct political motive for this theory (besides funding) ...

Ah yes, but there lies the rub ... when a researcher is looking for gub-mint funding, then said researcher has to of course, find that his research comes to one or another currently politically correct conclusion in order to pry loose the pesoes from the Treasury, so to speak.

[Finalapproach29er]

Abraham, the first leader of free America, was destined to die on Good Friday. imo

[shield]

If that’s what it is...UBL also has Marfans disease.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

“Well just dig him up and run every test you can think of then”

IIRC, following the foiled plot to “kidnap” Lincoln’s body and hold it for ransom it was disinterred and placed in a new grave site with tons of concrete poured on top.

[Revolting cat!]

Just what I’ve been saying all along - he would of died anyway!

[CindyDawg]

I didn’t know about that.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’ve read that AB had Marfans. I knew an especially tall guy who thought he had it, too. He was getting taller and more uncoordinated as he got into his late 40s/early 50s...

[Rb ver. 2.0]

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