Lincoln not killed by Booth!
Thought I would get you with that! It is a well known fact that Booth is responsible for lodging a bullet into the brain of Lincoln which led to his eventual death. However, bullistic tests suggest that the type of gun used by Booth to shoot the President, the type of ammunition used, at the precise angle and distance Booth was from the President when the gun was fired; the bullet that became lodged in Lincolns skull, but would not have penetrated inward enough to cause his death. It was not until the doctor placed a steal probe into the bullet hole to measure the distance the bullet traveled into the skull that pushed the bullet further, which pierced Lincolns brain and led to his ultimate death? So did Booth really kill President Lincoln, or did Booth fire the gun? And, the doctor actually killed President Lincoln?
I bring this up because while studying and researching reconstruction material for my Third Book on the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War, another thought hit me. (The above suggestion has been haunting me, but this next one sends shivers down my spine.
What if the group that Booth was in conspriacy with, was not actually Southern Like history suggests. They suggest this because of the south losing the war and doing this in retaliation, and because Booths escape route took him back toward the south, suggesting A “Southern Plot”. What if a well known group in congress known as the “Radical Republicans” were responsible and devised a plot to make it look like it was a Southern Plot? Used Booth as their “Patsy” so to speak, and even falsely represented themselves as Southern to get Booths attention and interest in becoming involved?
Sounds like I’m going on a fishing excursion! I’ll have more in the next couple of days to continue this……….please come visit me during my quest for a possible dirty plot within our own government! Imagine that, corruption and deceit in congress! LOL They would never do that now would they!!!??????
Have a Historical Day!!!!!!!!!!!
Savannah
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Dear Savannah:
I believe that the information you have received about the firearm used by Booth was not powerful enough to penetrate the skull at close range is erroneous. Deringers were quite popular at the time of the Civil War, and the bullet and powder charge capable from this pistol was quite accurate and deadly. Deadly use of this type of pistol has been documented on many other occassions.
My understanding is that the physician who initially examined the president was well versed in gunshot wound treatments, and did a competent job rendering initial treatment.
According to the autopsy: “Dr. Woodward and I proceeded to open the head and remove the brain down to the track of the ball. The latter had entered a little to the left of the median line at the back of the head, had passed almost directly forwards through the center of the brain and lodged.” It is unlikely that the physicial who initially examined the president would drive the ball halfway into the president’s brain with a simple probe. Finally, and ironically, the gun used to kill Booth was the same caliber and essentially the same power of the Booth gun, and it completely passed through Booth’s neck vertebra, and was fired from a distance significantly greater than the shot fired by Booth.
I am confident that Booth killed Lincoln.
Thank you for your comment. The information I gave on this article was taken some time ago from a bullistics show on television, they first of all were trying to prove or disprove a few theories they had about Custer’s last stand, and the last was whether or not the gun that killed Lincoln, given the bullet that was fired, the range etc whether it could have actually penetrated the skull as it is reported to have. Causing death in and of itself. The mock replication of the event suggested that it would not. Now, we know flukes happen all of the time. Lincolns death from the bullet wound could have been actual…however, because we now have the magic bullet theory for Kennedy’s death…you will have people trying to prove that all assassinations are conspiracies and how. That is the belief behind freedom of thought and speech. We have this right. My blogs are to get people thinking about History outside of what they have been taught in our history books and to discover it for yourself. Thanks again for your comment and I hope to hear from you again!