Lincoln's last words

[loetar44]

Thanks Eva for the link. The bullet’s trajectory probably spared Lincoln’s frontal lobes and his vital brain stem areas, but IMO no modern treatment would have saved Lincoln.
It’s all gruesome, mind-blowing, morbid... but still fascinating. This thread was about Lincoln’s last words. I now tend to think –after the discussion- that Lincoln spoke his last words to Mary shortly before the fatal shot (however not a split second before the shot) and that these last words were probably "She won't think anything about it". After these words he probably leaned forward and looked down and to the left (but IMO not to Burnside). Right at that moment Booth put the bullet into his brain. Between his conversation with Mary and the shot no further words were said. I think most of you have seen the assassination scene from the TV movie The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998). Is this an accurate reenactment? In this clip of the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBLsOQPu23U
you hear Lincoln speak the words "She won't think anything about it" and you see Lincoln leaning forward and looking down and left at the moment of the shot, but the film has many inaccuracies. To sum up a few (as you will see in the clip). (1) the hole in the door look like more than an inch wide, but I’ve read somewhere it was slightly wider than a pin hole; (2) Booth yells “Sic Semper Tyrannus” in the box instead on the stage; (3) he also yells “The south is avenged” when he landed on the stage, but it is the question he actually did that; (4) Booth enters the presidential box during the “laugh”, but all accounts say he entered the box before the “laugh”, etc. Shall we ever know for sure that Lincoln’s last words were indeed "She won't think anything about it" and that he indeed was leaning forward and looking down and left when the shot fell? Dr. Bill Santo: Can you name some eyewitness testimony from the audience that observed Lincoln in this position ? I'm not a M.D. nor a ballistic expert, but I know that when a bullet is fired, its trajectory to its final destination is divided into three parts. The internal part of the trajectory concerns what happens from pulling the trigger to the bullet leaving Booth's derringer. The external trajectory involves the journey from the derringer to the target. The final part of the bullet's journey, from the target to the place where it comes to rest, is the terminal trajectory. When a human being is the target, all these trajectories get involved, not only the terminal trajectory.