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General Category / All NOT Things Lincoln Assassination / Joke of the Week
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on: May 13, 2013, 08:40:26 PM
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4 Husbands
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation. "He's a funeral director," she answered.
"Interesting," the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn't mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her 20's, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40's, and a preacher when in her 60's, and now - in her 80's - a funeral director.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.
(Wait for it)
She smiled and explained,
"I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."
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General Category / All Things Lincoln Assassination / Re: Was Lincoln Smiling When He Was Shot?
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on: May 13, 2013, 11:37:24 AM
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True, however, I think if someone actually saw Lincoln smiling after the shot, they would remember that because it's such an odd thing for someone to be smiling after they had been wounded. Agree?
I don't think Lincoln was aware of Booth's presence, maybe in his periphery view for a split-second, I'm more intrigued by Rathbones statement, albeit, 26 years later, that Booth hissed "I bring blessings to your Union" before Booth shot Lincoln. Of course that can't be proven either. I follow the Kauffman school of memory, if it isn't the earliest recall, it's worthless, but I take it a step further, I think "stories" change within a half hour (after) an event has happened.
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General Category / All Things Lincoln Assassination / Re: Was Lincoln Smiling When He Was Shot?
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on: May 10, 2013, 06:18:27 PM
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Barry,
While doing some research on another topic, I found this.
In "We Saw Lincoln Shot" by Tim Good, on page 148, Katherine M. Evans recollection in 1915, states Lincoln WAS smiling after he was shot.
"I looked and saw President Lincoln unconscious, his head dropping on his breast,his eyes closed, but with a smile still on his face"
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General Category / All Things Lincoln Assassination / Entry door to the box at Ford's
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on: May 06, 2013, 03:12:23 PM
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Authors/historians have long postulated that Booth or perhaps stagehand Edmund Spangler "bored" the sides of the door frame inside the box at Ford's, and the rod used, was part of a music stand. This is what Booth used to barr the door when he went into the box. This is also what delayed Rathbone from opening the door to let A.M.S. Crawford in. I cannot find anything positively stating that Booth "fashioned" such a device. Can anyone point me to references that Booth DID indeed do this?
Thanks!
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General Category / All Things Lincoln Assassination / The Hunt for Booth, the largest Manhunt in history?
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on: April 24, 2013, 08:07:54 PM
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Here's an article that was sent to me tonight. I don't agree with it, I would have thought the hunt for Bin Laden would have surpassed Booth, Boston, etc.
These are 'interesting' times
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 8:38 AM
There is an old Chinese curse that says: "May you live in interesting times."
Last week was certainly interesting.
We'd had two weeks of posturing over what the secretary of state called the "gravest crisis" on the Korean peninsula in 60 years, and the talking heads filled the TV with warnings of impending nuclear war.
All that got blown off the front page of every newspaper in America by a pair of pipe bombs.
The Boston Marathon Bombings launched what was arguably the largest manhunt in U.S. history since the Army was turned out to look for John Wilkes Booth. The pressures of modern media -- the public demands to know what you've done for them in the last 60 seconds -- led to some bad, erroneous reporting, filled, between the few real facts available, with hours of talking heads making assumption after presupposition on the flimsiest of rumors. Since it's the American way to point fingers when things go wrong, the FBI came in for criticism, yet, in the end, got their man in an amazingly quick period of time. Then some of our congressmen, who seemed to have forgotten we're a nation of law, promptly convicted the suspect (hang 'em, then hold the trial) and advocated treatment that, in the past, has led to torture. Justice, which is far more satisfactory in the end, was being trampled under calls for hot-headed revenge. Cooler heads will eventually prevail -- we hope.
Then there was a poison letter (chemical weapon) attack on the president, a congressman and a judge -- by an Elvis impersonator. We'll let the late night comics play with that one -- serious as it was.
In Texas, a terrible tragedy in an industrial accident where they're still trying to figure out the final death toll, which was close to 10 times what Boston lost but seemed to fall into, at best, second place in the news coverage. In any other week, it would have been the biggest story of all.
Canada broke up an al-Qaeda plot to destroy a passenger train. There was a mass shooting in Seattle (but according to the Senate, that's not a big deal).
It was an "interesting" week. Now, let's all take a deep breath and get back to our "reality" shows.
-- Kelly Everitt
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