john wilkes booth: *shoots lincoln*
edwin booth: this is why mom doesn’t fucking love you!
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I witnessed Abe Lincoln’s assassination and got dragged into hunting for John Wilkes Booth.
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tell me about the play “our american cousin”
"Our American Cousin" is a play less known for its story than its 1865 production at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., which was said to be "Well-costumed, lavish in set design, and supremely well acted despite certain distractions," according to Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Does John Wilkes Booth from real-life history have a ryu number?He has a bacon number
John Wilkes Booth has a Ryu Number of 2.
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After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.
The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.
It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.
Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.
The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.
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A couple days late but here’s The Assassination of Ameowham Lincowoln by John Whiskers Booth
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The probable unmarked grave of John Wilkes Booth covered in Lincoln pennies in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD.
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Map of John Wilkes Booth 66 mile escape route after shooting Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth was caught and killed after 12 days.
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