The Assassination on the Screen - Comparisons

[LincolnToddFan]

Thanks Roger, that's the story I was thinking of. I could have sworn that there were other sources for the axe story than Francis Carpenter. The famous axe itself is in a collection somewhere, I saw a photo of it recently. I don't believe the story is made up, it just sounds very "Lincolnesque".

But it does sound astonishing for a middle aged man who was supposedly fatigued and fatally ill.

If I tried something like that, I'd end up cutting off one or both of my own feet!