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deadpresidents · 17 days

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After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.

The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.

It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.

Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.

The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.

#History #Abraham Lincoln #President Lincoln #Death of Abraham Lincoln #Assassination of Abraham Lincoln #Lincoln Assassination #Presidents #Presidential History #Presidential Assassinations #John Wilkes Booth #Assassins #Assassinations #Political History #Civil War #Civil War History #Petersen's Boarding House #Ford's Theatre #Presidential Deaths #Our American Cousin

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shakespearenews · 2 years

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IV. Shakespeare! That magic name we ever speak With love on lip, joy on the kindling cheek, Pride in the eye, and wonder on the brow: What may the Past, what may the boastful Now, Inscribe above it? To our fathers’ Isle, From this wild shore, there was a chain erewhile, And Shakespeare was our brother. That Debate Which broke the chain, and formed our Starry State, Even among its awful questions, gave Grandeur to this: “Our liberty we save – Our home – but lose our Shakespeare!” Was he lost? No! in our hearts, however tempest-tost, We bore him, till the storm awoke no more, Then said: “We were a few, who loved before – Lo! a New World, to love thee, gentle brother, With a full reverence, loyal as the other

V. So the chain binds us yet, in war’s despite, A stronger chain, electric, golden, bright: And we, the living forms of Shakespeare’s dream, Touched by his wand, become things we seem. We seek his very depths, else seldom sought, And are the active Ariels of his thought, Proud, while the wanderings of his worth we trace, To lure, delight, instruct the human race!

#shakespeare #william shakesepare #ford's theatre #poem #poetry #american revolution #theater #theatre #richard iii #forrest #charlotte cushman #Meg Merrilies #Junius Brutus Booth

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dontcallittimetravel · 1 year

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On This Day: John Wilkes Booth breaks his leg in ford's theatre jumping from a private box to the stage in the middle of a performance

#on this day #on this date #ford's theatre #john wilkes booth #lincoln #that's true #technically

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thorinsbeard · 8 months

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A movie for every year since I was born: Cats (1998)

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28ratsinatrenchcoat · 17 days

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I cannot stop thinking about “The Meek Shall Inherit” from the fords theatre production of little shop.

DURING SEYMOUR’S SOLILOQUY MUSHNIK COMES OUT DRENCHED IN BLOOD HOLDING ORINS HEAD, AND HE JUST WALKS TOWARD HIM. THE GHOSTS OF HIS CONSCIENCE REPREMANDING HIM, WARNING HIM, REMINDING HIM OF WHAT HES DONE.

#I am not well #i think about it way too much #If you are in the area and have the chance to see it it’s amazing and you should #So many great moments like this #The cast is also phenomenal #Fords theatre #little shop of horrors #seymour krelborn #audrey ii #Alan menken #howard ashman

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datshitrandom · 4 months

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Darren Criss | 2023 | ON TOUR

Los Angeles • México • Australia • London

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queen-rndmchick · 6 months

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The Crown 👑 Season 6 Premiere @ Regency Theatre LA

#the crown #the crown season 6 #world premiere #los angeles #regency theatre #celebrity #fashion #red carpet #actors #elizabeth debicki #khalid abdalla #meg bellamy #ed mcvey #luther ford #rufus kampa #fflyn edwards #jonathan pryce #peter morgan #corgi

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williammarksommer · 1 year

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All The Time In The World

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brian-in-finance · 1 year

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Vanity Fair Oscars Party • 2017 • Designer: Alberta Feretti

Vanity Fair Oscars Party • 2019 • Designer: Dundas Couture

Academy Awards • 2020 • Designer: Valentino

Vanity Fair Oscars Party • 2020 • Designer: Prabal Gurung

Academy Awards • 2022 • Designer: Louis Vitton

Vanity Fair Oscars Party • 2022 • Designer: Louis Vitton

Photo: Vanity Fair Slideshow • Other Photos: Getty Images

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Seem like only 319 days ago…

#Tait rhymes with hat #Good times #Le Mans ‘66 #Ford v Ferrari #Belfast #Vanity Fair Oscars Party #Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts #Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences #AMPAS #Academy Awards #Oscars #Dolby Theatre #26 February 2017 #24 February 2019 #9 February 2020 #27 March 2022 #Los Angeles California USA #Getty Images #Campaign To Shorten Awards Season

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deadpresidents · 16 days

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Booth had died onstage dozens of times in Richard III, Hamlet, and Shakespeare's other great tragedies, but tonight he was not playacting. He wanted to go down fighting, not hang like a petty thief. "I have too great a soul to die like a criminal," he wrote in his diary a few nights before. "Oh may he, may he spare me that and let me die bravely." For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at the improvised theatre of Garrett's farm, but also for history.

He had already perpetrated the most flamboyant public murder in American history. Indeed, Booth had not only committed murder, he had performed it, fully staged before a packed house. At Ford's Theatre, Booth broke the fourth wall between artist and audience by creating a new, dark art -- performance assassination.

-- James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

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sassmill · 2 months

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When you want to visit the Alhambra but mom’s like “we got the Alhambra at home”

#niche joke maybe?#unclear how many millennials and elder gen z are familiar with moorish decorative arts #but this is the theatre at New York City center #described in the show program as ‘1943 neo-moorish’#I think theatres need to start having themes again why did we stop doing that #I’m not saying we should randomly model them on landmarks of other cultures #because it’s so fucking weird #like the garde arts center in CT is vaguely Egyptian and it’s like??? that’s a choice #but new build theatres are just like neutral spaces #which I understand completely you don’t want to distract from the production happening onstage #but surely there’s some middle ground we could reach!#some kind of neo art deco revival could be lovely #especially as more and more art deco theatres are getting restored to their historic designs #I don’t know if theatres are this way in other countries but I’m assuming that the American trend at the turn of the century #was influenced by European theatrical tradition #I’ve seen color plates of concert halls and opera houses #so I’m pretty sure our heavily themed theatres built 1900-1950 are a translation of that #unfortunately I don’t really have a knowledge base for American theatres older than that because I haven’t really been to any #well wait that’s a lie I’ve been to ford’s theatre in DC #but I don’t think there was much that stood out stylistically to me I think it was just very bog standard federalist #which isn’t the period most people associate it with because of Lincoln #but I don’t know off the top of my head when it was built and that is likely a modern design choice anyway #this has been another episode of ‘I have approximate knowledge of many things’

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stairnaheireann · 4 months

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#OTD in 1961 – Death of stage, film and television actor, Barry Fitzgerald, in Dublin.

Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin. He was the older brother of actor, Arthur Shields. As a child he played with the younger siblings of James Joyce who he called ‘a young man with a beard and very clever.’ He went to Skerry’s College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service, while also working at the Abbey Theatre. By 1929, he…

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#Abbey Theatre #Actor #Arthur Shields #Barry Fitzgerald #Dublin #Going My Way #Hollywood #Ireland #James Connolly #James Joyce #John Ford #Portabello #Sean O’Casey #The Quiet Man

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pazzesco · 6 months

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Various artists/makers - Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold - 1865

On the night of April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. Within twenty-four hours, Secret Service director Colonel Lafayette Baker had already acquired photographs of Booth and two of his accomplices.

The three photographs were taken to Alexander Gardner's studio for immediate reproduction. This bill was issued on April 20, the first such broadside in America illustrated with photographs tipped onto the sheet.

Photographs of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold used for the Wanted Poster, the first broadside to use actual photo images.

Mourning Corsage with Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

About the time of Abraham Lincoln’s long funeral tour, April 21 to May 3, 1865, enterprising vendors produced mourning corsages featuring black silk ribbons adorned with small circular photographs of the president.

Alexander Gardner - Planning the Capture of Booth - 1865

Secret Service Director Colonel Lafayette Baker sits and studies maps of the area where Booth was believed to be hiding in Maryland or Virginia. The portrait, in wood-engraving form, illustrates a long article published by Harper’s Weekly on May 13, 1865.

Harper’s Weekly on May 13, 1865.

According to the news story, government agents found Booth in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia, and demanded that he surrender. He refused, and when they warned him that soldiers would set fire to the barn, Booth responded: “Well then, my brave boys, prepare a stretcher for me.” Booth was shot as he attempted to escape the conflagration and died three hours later.

Alexander Gardner - Execution of the Conspirators - July 7, 1865

Photograph of the execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865

This photo shows the final preparations on the scaffolding in the yard of the Old Arsenal Prison. The day was extremely hot and a parasol shades Mary Surratt, seated at the far left of the stage. (She would become the first woman in America to be hanged.) Two soldiers stationed beneath the stage grasp the narrow beams that hold up the gallows trapdoors. The soldier on the left would later admit he had just vomited, from heat and tension. Only one noose is visible, slightly to the left of Surratt; the other three nooses moved during the exposure and are registered by the camera only as faint blurs. Members of the clergy crowd the stage and provide final counsel to the conspirators. A private audience of invited guests stands at the lower left.

2 details from Gardner's "Execution of the Conspirators" series of photos.

The execution took place after 1pm and was watched by around a thousand people, including members of the government, soldiers, friends and relatives of the condemned.

Mary Surratt, mother of John Surratt. She owned the boarding house that the conspirators used as a safe house and to plot the assassinations. She was convicted of conspiracy by a military tribunal and hanged. Her son was the only conspirator who escaped. He eluded arrest following the assassination by fleeing to Canada, then to Europe and then to Egypt, but was eventually arrested and extradited. By the time of his trial, the statute of limitations had expired on most of the potential charges which meant that he was never tried.

At roughly the same time that John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln, co-conspirator Lewis Paine attempted unsuccessfully to murder Secretary of State William Seward. He was one of those executed at the Old Arsenal Prison on July 7th.

#abraham lincoln #William Seward #Republican National Convention #Old Arsenal Prison #Execution of the Conspirators #alexander gardner #Lafayette Baker #Harper’s Weekly #Ford Theatre #historical photos #vintage photography #photography

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kwebtv · 9 months

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One Sunday Afternoon - CBS - May 16, 1949

A Presentation of Ford Theater (Season 1 Episode 8)

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Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Burgess Meredith as Biff Grimes (his television debut)

Hume Cronyn as Hugo Barnstead

Pat Harrington Sr as Nick

Francesca Bruning as Amy Lind Grimes

Augusta Roeland as Virginia Brush Barnstead

Additional Cast Members

James Sullivan

Claire Kirby

William Brower

Dorothy Duckworth

Martin Harvey

Peggy Cass

James Hagan's Play was filmed three times earlier

One Sunday Afternoon (1933) w/ Gary Cooper and Neil Hamilton

The Strawberry Blonde (1941) w/ James Cagney and Jack Carson

One Sunday Afternoon (1948) w/ Dennis Morgan and Don DeFore

#One Sunday Afternoon #TV #Drama #1940 #The Ford Theatre #NBC #Burgess Meredith #Hume Cronyn #Pat Harrington Sr.#Francesca Bruning #Augusta Roeland

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datshitrandom · 6 months

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Darren Criss 2023 Tour 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 || Spotify Playlists

Darren Criss at The Ford | July 23, 2023

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Darren Criss at Adelaide Festival Centre | September 3, 202

Darren Criss at Hamer Hall | September 6, 2023

Darren Criss at Theatre Royal | September 7, 2023

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Darren Criss at London Palladium | October 15, 2023

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#darren criss #🇺🇸🇲🇽🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿#darren criss @ the ford #darren criss @ frontón méxico #darren criss @ festival centre #darren criss @ hamer hall 2 #darren criss @ city recital hall #darren criss @ theatre royal #darren criss @ london palladium matinee #darren criss @ london palladium #spotify playlist #↻ ◁ || ▷ ↺#⋆｡ ˚༘ ♫#spotify #playlist #don't know the set list of the 3 missing shows sorry #q

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 months

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RETURN OF THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS -- A COLLECTION, A PHOTO-SERIES, A FASHION STATEMENT.

PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on more shots of American actress/producer/ film director Angelina Jolie attending the premiere of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on September 18, 2007. 📸: by James Devaney, Jim Spellman, Richard Corkery, various, etc...

Once again, I'm not one to proverbially suck off modern day celebrities and/or the myth of celebrity, but these shots are what I like to call a "modern throwback" considering how old they are. To put things into perspective, these were taken in the same year I graduated high school, which is saying a lot already. These are bona fide red carpet classics!!

Source: www.reddit.com/r/angelinajolie/comments/12n018w.

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