Thread: DCA and bad fan motor

Ford's was one of my favs of DC as well.

Interesting. I think they know more about the events of when Lincoln got shot today than ever before. I remembered being told at Fords theatre some 40 years ago or more that John Wilkes Booth caught his spurs of his boots on the presidential picture frame of George Washington as he tried to jump over the box down to the stage. Thus breaking his leg. This time, it was the drapes that caught his foot only after a soldier he stabbed in the arm after shooting Lincoln tried to stop him as he jumped over the railing. Causing Booth to fall to the stage off balance thus breaking his leg.

So in 40 years, I hear two versions. Which is the correct one?

I read "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly a couple of months ago, which regardless on your opinion of O'Reilly was a good book. It reads more like a historical novel than just a standard biography of Booth. Lots of interesting things about JWB and that time of his life.

I don't pay much attention to the O'Reilly factor anymore. In fact, I quit listening to all of them. It's repetitious and predictable. Amazing to see that the theatre looks the same, but I would like to know how much of that theatre was genuine from the time. I wonder if everything has been rebuilt and if anything there is actually from that time period. I know that in 1893 some floor fell killing 22 office workers there. But you kind of get that good feel for it when you are there. Kind of a melancholy place to be shot. It looks gloomy and funeralistic like when you look up on the box that the president was shot to death. Kind of eerie. Victorian look to it. Then again, it was a sadistic and horrible time during the war between the states. Kind of fits like a glove.

When Booth went to the theatre, he went across the street for a couple of hard drinks at a local bar. To which the bartender told Booth as he was leaving, "Booth, you are not half the actor your father was". To which Booth answers..."Aha. But after tonight I will be famous."