The Lincoln Assassination on SNL

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(10-11-2015 02:00 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Hysterical, Dave! Lovin' it! (Rather good costuming on Mary as well!)

I remember this 1992 Saturday Night Live skit re: Lincoln and Booth as well....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATDhGrhyjU

Ha Ha! This one gets my science fiction brain going! Illustrates a what is called a causal loop (a time travel paradox in which a future event leads to a past event due to time travel). Lincoln went forward in time and saw that Booth killed him. So Lincoln next went backward in time and tried to kill Booth in order to prevent him from killing his future self (Lincoln's) - humorously of course, it being on SNL . Now to the "paradox" question. So in going to the past and attempting to kill Booth (and failing), did Lincoln instill a personal hatred so great in Booth that it in turn actually caused Booth to assassinate him in the future? Deep man, deep. And that's not as even crazy as some of the other conspiracy theories I've read!