The gun that killed Lincoln

[hrt4me]

some posit a theory John Wilkes Booth was a patsy, and really John Surratt fired the actual shot which killed President Abraham Lincoln using instead a contemporary pepperbox (pros: double-action, more shots if needed for follow-up or get-away)...

 

[user 48702]

TV Show "I've Got a Secret" Mr. Samuel J. Seymour "The Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln's Assination" (1956)

 

[toot]

WOW! can you beleave all of the cigarette adds on the show?

 

[allyncooper]

Actually John Wilkes Booth was a patsy and didn't fire the fatal shot. That shot was fired from the grassy knoll.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Very nice pistol: Deringer made the best in his day. John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors of his time, and earned a very good living.

 

[springfield art]

Very nice pistol: Deringer made the best in his day. John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors of his time, and earned a very good living.

Deringer of course had an arms factory in Philadelphia, and made some contract muskets, etc.

 

[springfield art]

WOW! can you beleave all of the cigarette adds on the show?

1950's shows had ads crowing about how they were sending cartons of Luckys and other brands to the wounded in Veteran's Hospitals! I have an old match book with the cover printed with Veterans Administration logo, so they must have provided matches at the hospitals.

 

[MC One Shot]

I have two of the Revell plastic models of this deringer that were out in the 60's.

LOL.... I made one too back then I think I still have it in a box in the shop somewhere. I also built the Kentucky rifle and the Win 1886 that they had.

 

[toot]

remember the ones in C-RATS, two of them, that you got one drag and all that was left was one long ash? the ones that I had in 1961 were dated 1944.