Butch Cassidy & The Hole In The Wall Gang, Valpairaso Chili 1902?

[Red-Coat]

Don't change the subject Tory, Everybody knows the English whistle Dixie, who gave the order to blow Honest Abes Head off? Was it the Prince of Wales?

That was so messed up, ol Honest Abe just Rocking away in his chair than Blam a 20 gauge shotgun blast puts him up against the theatre railing.
look at those shotgun pellet marks in that rocking chair from that Lemat, Pellets bounced so hard off Abes Head rhe ricocheted back and dented the wood on the chair,

Oh dear again!

How is responding directly to what you post in order to correct your considerable volume of misinformation a change of subject? It's you that's all over the place with wild and unconnected personal conspiracy theories.

You also have a very vivid imagination. There was no "20 gauge shotgun blast" or "Pellets bounced so hard off Abes Head rhe ricocheted back and dented the wood on the chair". Lincoln was mortally wounded by a single shot from a .44-caliber Philadelphia Deringer pocket pistol fired at point-blank range. He survived in hospital until the following morning.

This was the weapon, dropped by Booth at the scene, and now in the museum collection at the Ford's Theatre National Historic Site in Washington. I've visited it. Have you?

And this is the bullet that killed him... a single soft lead ball, flattened on one side from the impact, and on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland:

You're entitled to your own 'opinions', but not your own 'facts'.

 

[Red-Coat]

There are Shotgun Divot holes in that bloodied chair. look how much blood was on the back of that chair. That ain't from some Derringer bullet. You muthas Splayed Abe out, his head just sploded all over the place. That was just wrong. Who Gave the order? I bet the Prince of Wales issues the edict.
Interesting thing the early depiction feature a Lamat pistol but Abe in a regular chair not a rocking chair.

I’m running out of ‘Oh dears’!

Wrong again, on all counts.

The force with which Booth’s single pistol bullet hit Lincoln did not cause any ricochet back and “dented the wood on the chair”, nor was his head “opened up like a ripe watermelon” as you incorrectly asserted in your previous post. Although he was shot at point blank range, it was a low velocity round. Also, he was shot from behind, so he slumped forwards. The bullet neither fragmented, nor exited his skull.

There was no LeMat pistol. The confusion probably arises from the fact that Booth’s co-conspirator George Atzerodt, who chickened out of his assignment to shoot Vice President Andrew Johnson at the same time Booth planned to shoot the president, was found in possession of a loaded LeMat when he was arrested six days later.

Other than the entry wound one inch to the left of the midline of the occipital bone at the back of his head and bleeding in the eye sockets arising from bilateral fractures of the orbits, there was little external damage to the president’s head and surprisingly little blood. Most of the damage, including the majority of the bleeding was internal. When Dr. Charles Leale examined the president, he removed a blood clot from the wound and noted only a slight oozing. There was of course some blood, but mainly on the president’s clothes and on the dress of the actress Laura Keene, who cradled the president's head after he was shot. There was a fair amount of blood elsewhere in the theatre’s presidential box, but it was that of Major Henry Rathbone who was slashed with a knife by Booth during the attempt to overpower him.

Although the theatre had its own chairs, which were not rockers, the tall rocking chair in which Lincoln was seated was the personal property of Harry Ford. He had brought it to the theatre from his home's bedroom because he knew Lincoln to be tall and that he frequently preferred a rocker to relieve the tension in his back.

Contrary to popular myth, the dark stains on the backrest of the chair are mostly not blood. Subsequent chemical analysis has confirmed that they are mostly Macassar hair oil and grease that accumulated over the years before the president ever sat in the chair. Neither does the obvious damage to the chair have any relationship to the shooting. The chair was seized as evidence immediately after the shooting and then transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1866. The Smithsonian neglected it, and it sat hidden away and unprotected in a basement storage facility for decades, during which time it suffered water damage, moth attack, and wear from maltreatment by disrespectful museum workers.

The widow of Harry Ford ultimately petitioned to have the chair returned to her and regained possession in 1929, immediately putting it up for auction. It was purchased by the automobile magnate Henry Ford (no relation) using a surrogate bidder, and he put it on public display at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan the following year. Before it was fully protected, various people had created holes in the upholstery by pulling at loose threads to obtain macabre souvenirs.

 

[Red-Coat]

The Lincoln LeMat Revolver

Proofmarked in Birmingham England
Booth must of had it given to him for the mission. Obviously it must of had some significance, if it disappeared from history.
The Serial number?
I wonder who was issued the revolver initially?
My guess is a low number serial number
But who supplied the Lemat to Booth?
Definerely a Confederate Officer
hmmm

Sorry to burst your balloon again.

I did a bit of further checking on Atzerodt. Although some contemporary press reports say he was found “in possession of” a loaded LeMat pistol, this appears to be an untrue assumption on both counts by reporters. At his subsequent trial, no evidence was presented to suggest that he ever owned or carried one.

When Atzerodt was trying to summon up courage to shoot Vice President Johnson on the night of 14 April, he was carrying a Model 1865 Double Action Pocket Revolver, chambered in .31 calibre, serial number 499, manufactured by Cooper Firearms in Frankford, Philadelphia. He spent most of the night drunkenly walking the streets of Washington with the gun and a sharp-eyed woman saw him drop a knife into a gutter, which she immediately reported to the police (who retrieved it).

John L. Caldwell, a clerk at W. S. Matthews & Company in Georgetown, testified that, on the morning after the Lincoln assassination, George Atzerodt visited his store at about 8 o’clock and pawned the Cooper revolver for $10. Atzerodt said he was “going to the country and needed some money.” In fact he used the cash to buy a stagecoach ticket to get to Maryland and hide out at his cousin’s house in Germantown, where he was arrested on 20 April. The weapon was retrieved by detectives and formally presented as evidence for the prosecution at Atzerodt’s trial.

In the meantime, Atzerodt’s movements had been traced to the Kirkwood House Hotel in Washington following a tip-off from one of their employees about a "suspicious looking man in a gray coat" who had also been asking the bartender about Vice President Johnson’s whereabouts. Atzerodt had booked room 126, sharing it with a stranger (Samuel Thomas) he met on the street to save money. He had apparently not slept in the room on the night of the 14th and left the following morning without paying his share of the bill.

Military police searched the room on the 15th and found a second gun concealed in the bedding: a loaded .44 calibre Remington model 1858 percussion revolver (together with a large Bowie knife). Although this is where the press reports of Atzerodt being “in possession” of a (mistakenly identified) LeMat appear to have originated, later trial evidence suggested that the gun and knife actually belonged to fellow conspirator David Herold and had been left behind in the room after the two men met there.

Samuel McAllister, the bookkeeper at the hotel, testified that Atzerodt had “requested he hold a knife and a pistol in his desk for a time” for safekeeping. In court, when shown the weapons found in the bedding of the rented room, he stated that they did not match the ones he had held for Atzerodt. When shown the gun Atzerodt had pawned and the knife found in the gutter, he stated that they did appear to be the ones he had been asked to hold.

 

[Red-Coat]

Honestly I am bored with the Lincoln subject, onto something else. That Lemat is probably long gone or possibly in some Hardcore Confederates possesion.

Easy to lose interest when you're debunked!

The LeMat never existed according to the evidence presented in court.

 

[Red-Coat]

Easy to lose interest when you're debunked!

The LeMat never existed according to the evidence presented in court.

Sure it didn't,
Best Beauregards

Glad that you've finally come to your senses and realised your were spouting unsubstantiated nonsense.

 

[russau]

GREAT FOLLOW UP Red-Coat !!!