For those out there who believe that John Wilkes Booth did not die at Garrett’s farm on April 26th, 1865, the following will surely validate your long-held beliefs. After reading my post about his birthday, a Texas lawyer who has written a book on the subject of Booth’s escape sent me a picture he received just this day from a man he knows as “John David St. E. Helen George”. Apparently this gentleman is also celebrating his 175th birthday today:
Coincidence? I think not!
Another researcher sent me a link to the following, hilarious, web comic regarding the Lincoln assassination. The entire comic is 38 pages long and really well done for a comic. It had me in stitches several times. I would put the whole comic here if I could, but the language is R rated at some points. Still, it’s definitely worth sharing. Click one of the examples below or the link that follows to read the comic.
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In the mail today, I received an item that I purchased off of eBay with the sole purpose of scanning it and sharing it here. What follows is an extremely well documented and deeply researched story about Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. The groundbreaking piece entitled, “The Doctor Who Came Back” appeared in the February 1943 edition of that eminent periodical…”True Comics”. 
I hope you enjoy it.
References:
True Comics #21 (Feb. 1943)
Here’s Boothie caroling, Part 3.
Wilkes Booth the Head Conspirator
As sung to, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”You know Powell and Spangler,
And Surratt and Herold.
Atzerodt and Mudd,
O’Laughlen and Arnold.
But do you recall,
The most famous conspirator of all?Wilkes Booth the head conspirator,
Had a very shiny gun.
Rathbone – he never saw it,
So now Lincoln’s work is done.
All of the other conspirators,
Listened to everything he said.
They never questioned Wilkes Booth.
And that is why old Abe is dead.Then one foggy April night
Conger came to say,
“Wilkes Booth with the barn so bright
Won’t you come out here tonight?”
Then Boston Corbett fired,
And he shouted out with glee,
“I shot the head conspirator,
Providence directed me!”
It’s time for another dose of revised holiday cheer. Here’s another classic Christmas carol rewritten in the “Boothie” theme. Please remember that these songs are just meant as harmless fun, and not an endorsement of Booth and his actions.
We, Bruti
As sung to, “We, Three Kings of Orient Are”We Bruti, of vengeance we are.
Recompense we seek for our scars.
This oppression through suppression,
Masking as stars and bars.O, Lincoln, Seward, Johnson too
Tyrants all, destructive crew.
Guns and daggers, cease their swagger.
Guide us on our deadly coup.“Caesar falls from my noble plot.
I am scorned, but it matters not.
Chased and hunted, lamed and blunted,
I earn my own gun shot.”O, Lincoln, Seward, Johnson too
Tyrants all, destructive crew.
Guns and daggers, cease their swagger.
Guide us on our deadly coup.“With my knife, I burst in his room.
With his blood, I paint it with gloom.
He survived me, then they tried me.
Now I await my tomb.”O, Lincoln, Seward, Johnson too
Tyrants all, destructive crew.
Guns and daggers, cease their swagger.
Guide us on our deadly coup.“With my task, I could not commit.
Pawned my gun, from D.C. I split.
Found with Richter, bound and pictured,
Still the same fate I get.”O, Lincoln, Seward, Johnson too
Tyrants all, destructive crew.
Guns and daggers, cease their swagger.
Guide us on our deadly coup.
During this holiday month, I hoping to post a few of my “Boothie” Carols. Last year I composed these revised Christmas Carols as a gift for my girlfriend, Lindsey. I hope you enjoy them as the harmless bit of humor that they were intended.
This first one is called, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Play”. I’ve embedded a YouTube video of the original song in case you feel like singing along with the new lyrics. 
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Play
As sung to, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
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It’s the most wonderful time of the play.
With the stage almost empty,
And laughter a plenty,
Plus I’ve barred the way.
It’s the most wonderful time of the play.
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It’s the slap-happiest whimsy of all.
When their foreign born cousin,
A bane there in London,
Let’s loose his guffaw.
It’s the slap-happiest whimsy of all.
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There’ll be noise for suppressing,
The sound of my threshing,
In case someone puts up a fight.
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There’ll be shock and confusion,
A sense of delusion,
As Lincoln goes out like a light.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the play.
There’ll be much adoration,
As I save the nation,
A tyrant, I slay.
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It’s the most wonderful time.
Yes, the most wonderful time.
Oh the most wonderful time,
Of the play!
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John Wilkes Booth hadn’t planned on killing Abraham Lincoln at all. When he entered the balcony box at Ford’s, he was really hoping to put an end to two of the worst hecklers in the business:
Happy Friday!
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John Wilkes Booth was a defining moment of American history. It was a national tragedy the likes of which we had never experienced. It turned Lincoln into a martyr and changed the course our country would take after a devastating Civil War. For this reason, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has become perfect fodder for the imaginative minds of comic book writers. Through this artful medium, Lincoln’s assassination has been remembered, revised, and completely reinvented to match the worlds in which superheroes like Superman, Batman, The Flash, and others exist. Most references to the assassination in comic books are brief but a select few have devoted serious attention to America’s great drama of April 14th, 1865.
The Assassination Remembered
Several comic books briefly mention the assassination of Abraham Lincoln as it occurred. Occasionally, the main character is somehow thrown back through time or enters a parallel world to witness it. They may interact in the narrative, but the ending is still the same.
The Assassination Revised
While reminding us all of the past is nice, it isn’t very superhero-y. More often, the death of President Lincoln is averted due to the help of a hero, or because this is a parallel world where his assassination never occurred in the first place.
The Assassination Reinvented
In these versions, the normal history is changed drastically for the comic book world.
As entertaining as that rendition is, however, my favorite incarnation of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the comic book realm is this 1971 issue of The Flash:
From what I can gather from sources online, the Flash travels forward in time to the year 2971. He enters a world which once contained a united Earth. However a dispute has broken out between Earth East and Earth West and there is Civil War once again. The beginning of the comic leads with a future Lincoln getting disintegrated by a future John Wilkes Booth.
The Flash is rightly confused by how this is possible.
It turns out the future scientists created a robotic Abraham Lincoln to lead them through the Civil War. He contained Lincoln’s wit and wisdom, and also the ability to calculate the consequences of people’s actions.
Booth makes his escape to Earth East using a jet suit.
The Flash chases after him, but gets trapped when Booth ties him up with a future chain that squeezes him harder and harder.
Booth jets off again to meet his master, an evil mastermind named Bekor. He turns over the murder weapon he used to kill Lincoln to Bekor. Bekor betrays Booth and shoots him with the disintegrator. Bye Bye, Booth. When Bekor kills Booth though, Robot Abraham Lincoln remerges out of the gun. Apparently, using his robot brain, Lincoln predicted someone would try to take his life. So he carried around his anti-disintegrator pocket watch.
He turns the table on Bekor using his good old fashioned wrestling skills.
By then, The Flash has managed to escape the squeezing chains and rushes to Bekor’s lair. He manages to get Lincoln out of the lair before it self-destructs. Lincoln continues as President of Earth, using his 19th century wisdom to lead this troubled, 30th century world. This is a fun and entertaining reinvention of the assassination of Lincoln.
There are many other comic books that include references to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln with more coming out every year. As long as Abraham Lincoln continues to be an important part of the American story, his death will continue to find a place within their multicolored pages.
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