The John Wilkes Booth Bobblehead...Poor taste?

[Laurie Verge]

Surratt House is selling the Booth bobble-head as well as a young Lincoln one and the Lincoln Memorial statue one. They are all living happily together on our shop's shelves! We decided to follow the strategy of the Ford's Theatre Society, which sells the Booth one in their gift shop -- despite it being banned from the one that the National Park Service runs. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it. Luckily, a lot of our visitors like it.

Strictly from a personal point of view, when you have a job dealing with the assassination story every day of one's life, you learn not to take yourself so seriously all the time. Fun and jokes relieve the stress - and no one thinks that Booth Bobble will turn and shoot Abe Bobble.

Note to manufacturers - I would like a Mary Lincoln bobble. However, I would like her head to bob from side to side instead of up and down.

[LincolnMan]

Laurie: we're glad to hear those bobbleheads are all behaving!

[Donna McCreary]

I too would like to have a Mary Lincoln bobble head. Personally, I think the JWB one looks a lot like Edgar Allan Poe.

[LincolnMan]

I did an Internet search for the Seward bobblehead-no luck. I would like to have one also. My guess is that it will start showing up on Ebay at some point. Donna, I'm reminded of Edgar Allan Poe also when I look at the Booth bobblehead. "Nevermore!"

[Hess1865]

I have a Keith Richards bobblehead, which I put next to the Jesse Jackson bobblehead I also own.
Is this considered in poor taste????
LOL!!!

[Laurie Verge]

Re: Booth looking like Poe - a few of us unfortunates may remember a vanity press book done about forty years ago in which the suggestion was made that Poe was actually the father of John Wilkes Booth. No further comment because this is a family-oriented forum...

[LincolnMan]

Both Keith and Jesse are multi-millionaires, so maybe it's not a totally strange pairing.

[Donna McCreary]

(09-06-2012 09:02 AM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  Re: Booth looking like Poe - a few of us unfortunates may remember a vanity press book done about forty years ago in which the suggestion was made that Poe was actually the father of John Wilkes Booth. No further comment because this is a family-oriented forum...

I had not heard that story. How funny!!

[Jim Garrett]

Some may consider it tacky. It really is in poor taste to have your JWB bobble head behind and to the left of your AL bobble head. Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[LincolnMan]

No, that's just being historical!

[LincolnMan]

Anyone find a Seward Bobblehead for sale online yet?

[Linda Anderson]

(09-11-2012 01:26 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Anyone find a Seward Bobblehead for sale online yet?

They gave away 1,000 Seward bobbleheads at the game so the bobbleheads are out there somewhere. You can contact the Seward House to see if they have any information - info@sewardhouse.org - or maybe you can put a query in the local newspaper.

Here's another view.

http://auburnpub.com/multimedia/videos/v...03286.html

[BettyO]

No!! I really, really want one badly!

[ninabeth13]

I have a Lincoln bobblehead, no interest in a JWB bobblehead, but I'd love a Seward bobblehead! Chase would be good too.

[Gene C]

They tried to make a Gideon Welles bobblehead. The wig kept falling off