Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness

4 Responses to Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness

1. omnologos says:

   October 18, 2012 at 11:41 pm

   Your link to Big Tobacco, finally established!!

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2. Keith DeHavelle says:

   October 19, 2012 at 5:09 am

   They’re running a play in my little town
   “Assassins” that brought our presidents down
   It saddened me, but cheered LA Times staff
   The death of Abe Lincoln to them is a laugh.

   So they write that “Assassins” hits the mark
   The killing of presidents — it’s just a lark
   The thing LA Times likes the most, it would seem
   Is that it lampoons the American Dream:

   “The extreme individualism,” they said
   Is “ripe” for comedy. “Look where it led!”
   So now I express my deep disaffection
   For what they find precious. They’ll lose this election.

   ===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

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   • omnologos says:

     October 19, 2012 at 3:37 pm

     Shameless self promotion to state that the suggestion that the crowd who saved Roosevelt were a bunch of individualistic publicity seekers is particularly cretin. The woman who actually did it has received no medal, and isn’t even considered Wikipedia material.

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3. gator69 says:

   October 19, 2012 at 1:25 pm

   As a boy, while visiting my paternal grandmother, I searched an old chest and found an photo of a gallows with four hooded bodies hanging from it. It took my father days to get his mother to tell him the story. One of those hanging from the gallows was family, and his name was Lewis Powell. That changed my view of history, permanently.

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