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A President’s Day link for you. An NPR story about some recently surfaced photos of Lincoln’s inauguration, via MetaFilter.
The Library of Congress had discovered unseen photos of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration. They’d been housed at the library for years, hidden by an error in labeling.
Although my favorite dead president is William Henry Harrison, depicting
Abraham Lincoln's assassination was, visually, much more exciting. It was a giant, ill-conceived conspiracy that eventually ended with John Wilkes Booth being tracked down and shot by Union soldiers...and Lincoln appearing on the five-dollar bill.
At a tavern on the night of the assassination, a patron allegedly heckled Booth that he'd never be the actor his father was. Booth replied, "After my appearance on stage tonight, I'll be the most famous man in America." This incident is most likely not true.
I heard about a similar story but with john lennon's assassin..
interestingly, this illustration was almost pulled from another illustration blog, for being in bad taste. It is based on a lithograph
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Image:Lincolnassassination.jpg) from 1865 published by Currier and Ives. It has appeared in textbooks for school-age children for over 100 years. I thought I was doing something historically significant.
oh josh! that RED in the flag banner...wow...still taking this one in.