Monday Artday: dead presidents

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

dead presidents

She won't think anything about it

Although my favorite dead president is William Henry Harrison, depicting Abraham Lincoln's assassination was, visually, much more exciting. It was a giant, ill-conceived conspiracy that eventually ended with John Wilkes Booth being tracked down and shot by Union soldiers...and Lincoln appearing on the five-dollar bill.

At a tavern on the night of the assassination, a patron allegedly heckled Booth that he'd never be the actor his father was. Booth replied, "After my appearance on stage tonight, I'll be the most famous man in America." This incident is most likely not true.

4 comments:

aeneadellaluna said...: I heard about a similar story but with john lennon's assassin..; July 25, 2007 6:15 AM
josh pincus is crying said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 25, 2007 7:45 AM
josh pincus is crying said...: interestingly, this illustration was almost pulled from another illustration blog, for being in bad taste. It is based on a lithograph
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Image:Lincolnassassination.jpg) from 1865 published by Currier and Ives. It has appeared in textbooks for school-age children for over 100 years. I thought I was doing something historically significant.; July 25, 2007 7:46 AM
froggie is... said...: oh josh! that RED in the flag banner...wow...still taking this one in.; July 25, 2007 10:18 AM

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