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The Most Gruesome Coincidence About President Lincoln

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 17:01

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John Wilkes Booth

I’m going back in time today to President Lincoln’s assassination. and some strange coincidences – not those well known ones, that are often regurgitated, but something different. These I found when scouring some very old newspapers.

It seems that a William J Ferguson was on the stage of Ford’s theatre in Washington on the evening of the assassination – at the time he was a callboy at the Ford’s. This is what was reported in a newspaper:

“The house where Mr. Lincoln was brought after the shooting, and where he died the following morning at 7 o’clock, was an actor’s boarding house, to which Mr Ferguson had been accustomed to bring actors living there their ‘sides’ or parts,

“A peculiar coincidence connected with the house was the fact that the last time Mr Ferguson went on his usual errand, prior to the shooting, he found the actors all sitting about on the edge of the bed in which Lincoln died, and John Wilkes Booth lying in it smoking a pipe.

“Another peculiar coincidence connected with the whole affair is the fact that in the very hour that Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth’s brother, died the front of the Ford’s theatre collapsed.

“As to the story that John Wilkes Booth was burned to death or shot by the soldiers who surrounded the barn to which he fled across the Chain bridge, Mr Ferguson claims that both stories are absolutely untrue. Booth committed suicide, and, it being the final and most gruesome coincidence of all the coincidences connected with that most tragic shooting, shot himself through the base of the skull, in exactly the same place where he had shot Lincoln.”

The standard explanation of Booth’s death is – as per Wikipedia:

Sergeant Boston Corbett shot him [Booth]. According to Corbett’s later account, he fired at Booth because the fugitive “raised his pistol to shoot” at them. Conger’s report to Stanton, however, stated that Corbett shot Booth “without order, pretext or excuse,” and recommended that Corbett be punished for disobeying orders to take Booth alive. Booth, fatally wounded in the neck, was dragged from the barn to the porch of Garrett’s farmhouse, where he died three hours later, aged 26.

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