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Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - BettyO - 03-29-2016 07:16 AM

Found online what appears to be one of the cheesiest, scariest JWB's ever - a wax figure preparing to shoot Lincoln with a large six-shooter pistol from behind a vinyl shower curtain.... it also appears as if his left hand is about to fall off.....

Enjoy!

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RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - RJNorton - 03-29-2016 07:36 AM

Is he wearing a tuxedo?

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - BettyO - 03-29-2016 07:59 AM

Whatever he's wearing didn't exist in the 19th Century....at least not that I know of!

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - L Verge - 03-29-2016 01:05 PM

(03-29-2016 07:59 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Whatever he's wearing didn't exist in the 19th Century....at least not that I know of!

I guess they've been right all along -- Booth really was "Psycho."

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - Gene C - 03-29-2016 01:49 PM

thanks Laurie. I was waiting for that segue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtDmbr9xyY

Thanks BettyO. That Booth is pretty frightening.
I guess that's one of those little interesting tidbits of history - The "real" reason why people didn't take many showers back then.

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - Eva Elisabeth - 03-29-2016 03:46 PM

Looks like right away from a James Bond movie - and of Asian origin.

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - Jim Garrett - 03-29-2016 11:38 PM

looks pretty real to me.

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - LincolnMan - 03-30-2016 07:23 AM

Do we know where this scary wax Booth is displayed?

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - BettyO - 03-30-2016 07:55 AM

Unfortunately, no. I "Found" him on Tumbler - no link; just the graphic......

I DID find this photo of the scary Gettysburg wax figures (note the aging Booth) set for auction back a year or so ago -

http://www.eveningsun.com/story/archives/2014/03/13/preview-civil-war-figures-set-hit-auction-block/75631726/

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....As well as this screen shot from the old Vincent Price movie - House of Wax with the "King of Horror" himself with a wax JWB.....

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and on a different note - how about Lincoln and JWB for Breakfast...on toast!

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RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - Jim Garrett - 03-30-2016 09:48 AM

A friend of mine bought the JWB figure> I think he bought it hoping I might be interested in buying it from him. If anyone wants JWB, let me know.

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - RJNorton - 03-30-2016 01:17 PM

Here's a wax John Wilkes Booth dressed as a pirate. It was originally from Madame Tussauds, but it was recently sold at auction.

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RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - BettyO - 03-30-2016 01:45 PM

Definately NOT the "handsomest man in America!"

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - LincolnMan - 03-31-2016 10:38 AM

What a hoot these all are. And how many of the gullible public eat it up? Hopefully, not the toast!

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - LincolnMan - 03-31-2016 03:06 PM

Although I am reminded that Booth also had two Colt revolvers and a carbine following the shooting.

RE: Scary Wax JWB Shoots Lincoln in the Shower?!? - Gene C - 03-31-2016 03:53 PM

"Arrrr! Where's me hook?
Davey, fetch me my crutch, thar's a good lad"

Where John Wilkes Booth learned how to talk like a Pirate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_PR7YWQOc