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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-28-2015
I think this must be wrong but I'll guess Thomas C. Gourlay. Two of his children, Thomas P. Gourlay and Robert O. Gourlay, were in the audience at Ford's.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2015
Roger, this is an excellent guess, but not the one I was thinking of. Actually I don't know or remember if Abraham Lincoln and Thomas C. Gourlay had ever met respectively knew each other personally, but in that case Lincoln was certainly more closely acquainted with the person I am looking for.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2015
Hint #1: The acquaintance was a professional one.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2015
Hint. #2: Alliteration.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2015
Re. hint #1: The business was politics.
Re. hint #2: Maybe it helps to go through the alphabet, and you needn't even have to go halfway through it.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-29-2015
Hint #3: The person and A. L. had not met personally before 1860.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-29-2015
Hint #4: One source is p.116 of a book written by a forum member.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-29-2015
Hannibal Hamlin?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-29-2015
Kudos, Roger, that is correct. Hamlin's children Sarah and Charles were at Ford's Theater on the night A. Lincoln was assassinated. Hamlin’s daughter Sarah, married to George Batchelder, felt a “chill passing over” as Booth lept to the stage near where she was seated.
Roger, you win tickets for a theatrical performance of your choice.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-29-2015
Thanks, Eva - please send tickets to The Phantom of the Opera. Thank you!
RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 06-29-2015
Love the Phantom! It is returning to the Kennedy Center next summer with a whole new production under the guidance of someone else. Bet he can't touch the Andrew Lloyd Webber version.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-29-2015
(06-29-2015, 01:54 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Thanks, Eva - please send tickets to The Phantom of the Opera. Thank you!No problem! Good choice! If your schedule offers a vacancy until September I'll be most pleased to welcome you in Hamburg (where it is staged till then):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOBP8D-KqE
RE: Assassination Trivia - Thomas Kearney - 07-02-2015
It's time to play an assassination related edition of What's Wrong With This Picture? Take a look at this picture of the Garrett Farm Mock up in the Ford's Theater Center For Education And Leadership and tell me what is wrong in this picture:
http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/22/9223fbe3-4133-511e-833a-543f70ab83ca/5365ecbc3a271.image.jpg
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-02-2015
My aging eyes are not very good, but I think(?) I see a mustache. Didn't Booth shave off his mustache at Mudd's?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Thomas Kearney - 07-02-2015
(07-02-2015, 04:35 PM)RJNorton Wrote: My aging eyes are not very good, but I think(?) I see a mustache. Didn't Booth shave off his mustache at Mudd's?
Yes! I just wish Ford's would correct it. You win an awesome car.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-54404924/turbine/la-me-c1-1017-beat-lets-make-a-deal-zonks-pict-013/900/900x506