#Presidential Assassinations

[deadpresidents]

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

[itswilliamleonard]

AMELIA WATSON, VIRTUAL DETECTIVE, in: "Smol Ame's History Field Trip"

#amelia watson #smol ame #hololive #holomyth #presidential assassinations #court-ordered panel redactions #based department #time travel #sorry this took a while had some legal troubles lol... :P #first full-page traditional comic in FOREVER i'm SORREE #comic #wlart #williamleonard

[leonczolgosz]

This is one of my favorite things about Leon Czolgosz and the news surrounding him. This newspaper called him "cunning" for the way he concealed his gun. How did he do it? He put a fucking handkerchief over it.

This newspaper called him cunning because he had the brilliant idea to put a fucking handkerchief over his gun

#american history #united states history #us history #William McKinley #presidential assassinations

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Residents look on from windows and stand in the street across from 173 Brook Ave. in the Bronx, November 1, 1950, after word of an attempted assassination of President Truman in Washington the same day had reached the neighborhood. Oscar Collazo, 37, who lived in the 173 Brook Ave. tenement, was one of two gunmen shot outside Truman's Blair House residence.* Collazo's wife identified her husband, who was wounded, as a member of the revolutionary Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

*The White House was being renovated at the time.

Photo: John Lent for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #John Lent #Harry Truman #attempted assassination #presidential assassinatio #Oscar Collazo #Blair House #Puerto Rican nationalists #Puerto Rico liberation #Puerto Rico nationalism #Nov. 1 #1 Nov. #Bronx #vintage Bronx

[piggiebonez]

IF YOU LIKE SOME RANDOM-ASS BACKROUND IRKEN INVADER WITH NO SPEAKING LINES MORE THAN PRESIDENT MAN YOU'RE NOT GETTING INTO HEAVEN

Z*ADRS DNI. TWO BULLETS IN YOUR HEAD RED MIST IN THE AIR

is this one a little too much. i laughed hysterically when i came up with it but i imagine there might be a little kid stumbling across this and being completely traumatized. at least its a funny way to get traumatized. what do you assholes think

idk heres a bonus dib. probably my fav dib ever hes so smug and stupid. love him

#idk if i saw this when i was 12 id laugh but thats just me #my art #iz #invader zim #dib membrane #dib iz #iz dib #cw blood #blood cw #deat cw #death tw #gore tw #gore cw #tw gore #tw blood #tw presidential assassination #tw president man getting jfk-ed #zim harvey oswald. harzim lee oswald. harvey lee zimwald. do you find me funny yes or no #this is my favourite post on this blog. like literally. i want this to be the first thing everyone thinks of when ppl mention me #fav #ultra fav #extra ultra fav #fav of all time #<i am a self obsessed maniac psycho freak bitch. what are you gonna do about it anyway

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

#there were so many school groups! #a giant one came in RIGHT AFTER i entered lincoln's cabinet room #part of me was screaming 'children i NEED to tell you about all these idiots and their insane drama!' #a smarter part of me understood that would be super weird #so instead i regaled different individuals of my own traveling party after we had the room to ourselves #then at lincoln's tomb we lucked out in getting there during the ten minutes of the day when school groups weren't there #which meant we got a personal tour from a guide who seemed thrilled to have grown-ups to talk to #he and my dad chatted about fishing for a long while in the entry #it didn't feel disrespectful because it totally felt like the kind of conversation lincoln would have understood and joined in on #and then we went on our way but the guide then chased us down to share all the fascinating lincoln stories as we went along #(shout-out to lefty you were great) #and then a school group found us so we made a graceful exit #but outside a teacher was explaining to a different group about how robert was significant in his own right so he's buried at arlington #and the RESTRAINT i showed in not immediately informing them that he was present at three presidential assassinations! it was rather heroic #and then when we toured lincoln's house the guide (who accidentally made it clear he was a revolutionary war buff) #(which made it a bit hilarious he was stuck with lincoln) #asked for questions before we started and someone asked about lincoln's 1860 election campaign! #aka one of my SPECIAL NICHE AREAS OF OBSESSION! #you cannot imagine how desperately i wanted to tell him ALL ABOUT seward and thurlow weed #anyway it was fun to go back now that i actually know stuff about lincoln #but it was also a bit frustrating because now i know how much they leave out #(though there was cool new info and artifacts) #(the blood-stained piece of laura keene's dress was very morbid and very cool) #also it reminded me that i still have that book on the 1860 election i've yet to read and the hype is so real #presidential talk

[joeyisourranger]

constitution mention!

#not quite a presidential assassination but i’ll take it #avs lb

[apollos-boyfriend]

i’m going to be So Fucking Unwell tomorrow

#icarus speaks #SLASH POS!!!!! #the sillies r back on minecraft…….. #IM SO EXCITED!!!! #i haven’t seen any members list go up but like. i can Guess #i hope we have another presidential assassination

[demon4dilfs]

czolgosz working man born in the middle of michigan woke with a thought and away he ran to the panamerican exposition in buffalo!!!!!

#i've had a song about a presidential assassin stuck in my head. for hours

[whilomm]

the problem with learning an obscureish piece of trivia is that sometimes you will hold on to that piece of trivia for years just fucking waiting for the moment where you are the only one in the room who knows that charlie guiteau was the one that shot president james garfield at a railway depot back east. BUT WILL THE MOMENT EVER COME?

#buzzy #its my favorite presidential assassination song #johnny cash #ONE OF YHESE DAYS I WILL BE IN A TRIVIA COMPETITION AND YHE PRESENTER WILL START 'WHO SHOT PRESIDENT JA-' #AND I WILL BUZZ IN AND THEY WILL THINK THEY CAUGHT ME IN THEIR TRAP THEY WJLL THINK I WILL SAY LEE HARVEY OSWALD #BUT NO. I KNOW MY ASSASSINS #AND I WILL REIGN SUPREME

[deadpresidents]

Learned today that John Wilkes Booth had a six-pack. Can that really be right?

I hope that's not the most essential information that people today are learning about John Wilkes Booth's life.

I've never seen a "Sexy American Assassins" calendar that featured Booth posing with his shirt off or Charles Guiteau participating in a wet t-shirt contest (at least not yet, but a boy can dream), so I can't definitively confirm that information. However, what apparently made Booth stand out as an actor was his exceptional athleticism on stage. People who watched the plays that he acted in often remarked on Booth's dynamic physical performances. So that, and the fact that he was just 26 years old when he died, would seem to support the possibility that he was in pretty good shape. But even if John Wilkes Booth had washboard abs, I think the most important detail to remember is that he murdered Abraham Lincoln and that sucked.

(While we're on the subject, it's interesting to note that some of the people attending to President Lincoln in the hours between the time he was shot and his death the following morning were shocked at how muscular the 56-year-old President was when he was undressed as doctors attempted to save his life. Dr. Edward Curtis, who assisted with the autopsy of Lincoln at the White House, wrote that "I was simply astonished at the showing of the nude remains, where well-rounded muscles built upon strong bones, and perfectly outlined beneath a clear skin free from underlying fat, told the powerful athlete. Now did I understand the deeds of prowess recorded of the President's early days." So, Booth is probably lucky he had a gun -- and snuck up on the President from behind -- because Lincoln probably would have knocked his dick in the dirt.)

[And, yes, I really gave a relatively serious answer to this question.]

#John Wilkes Booth #History #Assassination of Abraham Lincoln #Lincoln Assassination #Presidents #Presidential Assassins #Assassins #Presidential Assassinations #Civil War #Actors #Washboard abs #John Wilkes Booth's six-pack #A “Sexy American Assassins” calendar would do big business on Tumblr #Abraham Lincoln #President Lincoln

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ That cartoon indirectly reminds me that we're nearing the 4th anniversary of Trump's terribly botched response to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All those MAGA zombies who wax nostalgic about what a golden age the Trump administration was conveniently forget about everything that happened after January of 2020; that includes the Trump recession and the need for stimulus payments which led to a spike in inflation.

As for legal immunity, Trump is making the case that a president could order the assassination of a political rival. Seriously.

US president could have a rival assassinated and not be criminally prosecuted, Trump’s lawyer argues

If the courts bizarrely rule in Trump's favor on that, there's nothing legally to stop President Biden from ordering a drone strike on Mar-a-Lago. 😆

#donald trump #presidential immunity #trump's legal problems #the rule of law #assassination of rivals #covid-19 #trump's botched response to the pandemic #register and vote #vote blue no matter who #election 2024 #rick mckee

[professorxsmokesweed]

im taking the original implications that raven shot jfk/framed erik for it as canon im not sorry its funny as shit and i really think it adds a lot to their dynamic

#IEBWHHEIDEIFBW RAVEN PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSIN HBEHEHEJE€]!{€€~*{€|*~€{€~*{ GIRLBOSS GIRLBOSSING! #I LOVE HER. #WLW AND MLM HOSTILITY. ALSO THIS SOMEHOW MAKES THEM STRONGER FRIENDS LATER IN LIFE. IF WE ACT LIKE THE OT CONNECTS.

[gwydionmisha]

#Donald Trump #Assassination #Presidential Immunity #Coup Attempt #News

[sleepdepravity]

The thing I like about sondheim’s assassins is that it really does a good job of taking these people and telling the story “from their perspective” without falling into the trap of making them sympathetic, the way plenty of other stories do for “historical villains.” Like. The audience still understands their reasons, but the understanding doesn’t elicit compassion exactly, it makes this subtle sense of fear, I think. Understanding them is scary. Relating to them is scary. Assassins is the horror story of the American Way.

#assassins #stephen sondheim #‘let them cry ‘dirty traitor’/they will understand it later’ #one of my favorite lyrics #many songs from the characters that lay bare their hopes and dreams and motivations #without the intention to make you feel *for* them #not exactly anyways #watching it last night with someone and he mentioned that #it really drove home to him how many assassinations and attempted assassinations happened here too #the show specifically being about USA presidential assassinations is really important to the tone and message #personal malkylife

[lejournaldupeintre]

Quién era Fernando Villavicencio, el candidato a la presidencia de Ecuador asesinado días antes de las elecciones

Anti-corruption figure killed days before election amid sharp rise in violent and organised crime The Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been shot dead as he left a campaign event in Quito, days before an election where the central issue is the rise violence and crime. Local media first reported his death, which Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso later confirmed on…

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#assassination #Ecuador #presidential elections #Quito #Villavicencio