the president is dead
the president is dead
#0the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:15pm
lincoln's death too sad to describe
friday april 14, 1865
the guardian
president lincoln and wife, with other friends, this evening visited ford's theatre, for the purpose of witnessing the "american cousin". the theatre was densely crowded, and everybody seemed delighted with the scene before them.
during the third set, and while there was a temporary pause for one of the actors to enter, a sharp report of a pistol was heard, which merely attracted attention, but suggesting nothing serious, until a man rushed to the front of the president's box, waving a long dagger in his right hand, and exclaiming, "sic semper tyrannis" [thus perish all tyrants] and leaped from the box, which was in the second tier, to the stage beneath, making his escape, amid the bewilderment of the audience, from the rear of the theatre, and mounting a horse, fled. the screams of mrs lincoln first disclosed the fact that the president had been shot, when all present rose to their feet and rushed towards the stage, many exclaiming, "hang him, hang him."
the excitement was of the wildest possible description, and there was an abrupt termination of the theatrical performance. there was a rush towards the president's box, when cries were heard - "stand back and give him air. has anyone stimulants?" on a hasty examination, it was found that the president had been shot through the head, above and below the temporal bone, and that some of the brain was oozing out. he was removed to a private house opposite to the theatre, and the surgeon general of the army, and other surgeons, sent for.
on an examination of the private box, blood was discovered on the back of the cushioned rocking chair on which the president had been sitting, also the partition, and on the floor a single-barreled pocket pistol was found on the carpet.
a military guard was placed in front of the private residence to which the president had been conveyed. a crowd was in front of it, all anxious to learn the condition of the president. it had been previously announced the wound was mortal, but all hoped otherwise. the shock of the community was terrible.
at midnight, the cabinet and a few personal friends, with surgeon general barnes, and his immediate assistants, were around his bedside. the president was in a state of syncope, totally insensible and breathing slowly; the blood oozed from the wound at the back of the head. the surgeons exhausted every possible effort of medical skill, but all hope was gone. the parting of his family with the dying president is too sad for description.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:17pmYou may want to change the title of this post before it ignites a flame war.
#2re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:23pmi thought it was true and i got, well, let's just say i smiled.
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Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:24pmThe name of this thread is so intentionally deceiving! Too bad it's not true.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:29pm
Boy...they just walked right on into it, didn't they, Papa?
I'm currently reading AMERICAN BRUTUS about Booth and the assassination. Really pretty interesting.
#6re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:33pmI've just got the obnoxious "ahhhh" vamp from "Something Just Broke" stuck in my head.
#7re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:38pmJeez.
#8re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:39pmAnd you got me all excited...
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#9re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:43pm
"I've just got the obnoxious "ahhhh" vamp from "Something Just Broke" stuck in my head."
And I indeed have the Marc Kudisch "broadcast" of JFKs asassination stuck in my head Urgh
#10re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 5:02pm
I DIDN'T have any Assassins selection stuck in my head...
but after reading your posts, the whole show is stuck in my head.
GOSH DARN IT :0)
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#11re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:29pm
WHOA!! I should have known better not to believe that...
#12re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:52pmof course April 14, 1912 is the day the Titanic sunk...
#13re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:22pmWhy did you do it Johnny...
-My fault, I fear.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#14re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/14/06 at 11:07pmwhy is everyone bitching about getting sondheim stuck in their head?
#15re: the president is dead
Posted: 4/15/06 at 7:32amI've had Sondheim stuck in my head since Company.
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