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MSN UK News - President Abraham Lincoln could have survived an assassins bullet if todays medical technology existed in 1865. How that would have affected history is less clear according to a doctor and historian who planned to speak Friday at an annual
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Among the records dating to 1792, the Washington County Courthouse contains the Marriage Bond of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln and the Ministers Certificate of Return signed by Minister Jesse Head. The importance of these two documents has often been overlooked through the years because few people realize when the President was assassinated, he had searched but never found proof of his parents marriage. In 1858, after inquiries about Lincoln's nativity, parentage and ancestry, a search was done in the records in Hardin County, Kentucky. Then 13 years after the President's death, two descendants of Nancy Hanks, Mr. R.M. Thompson and Mr. William Hardesty, urged Washington County Clerk Wm. F. Booker to examine his office records.
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In 1860 the Republicans, anxious to attract as many different factions as possible, nominated Lincoln for the presidency on a platform of slavery restriction, internal improvements, homesteads, and tariff reform. In a campaign against Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, two rival Democrats, and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party, Lincoln won a majority of the electoral votes and was elected president.
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Lincoln's death made the President a martyr to many. Repeated polls of historians have ranked Lincoln as among the greatest presidents in U.S. history, often appearing in the first position. Among contemporary admirers, Lincoln is usually seen as personifying classical values of honesty and integrity, as well as respect for individual and minority rights, and human freedom in general.
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Lincoln was killed, tenderized, and marinated by freelance conquistador John Wilkes Boothy after being hammered in the ass to death, then microwaved at 50% power for 5 minutes and then heated at 350 degrees for 30 minutes by Lee Harvey Oswald[7]. Unfortunately, Oswald failed to remove Lincoln's plastic wrapper and the President was rendered inedible. He stank up the theatre with a smell of burnt grains and plastic. Oswald was later assassinated[8] by Kirby in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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An army surgeon, Doctor Charles Leale, initially assessed Lincoln's wound as mortal. The President was taken across the street from the theater to the Petersen House, where he lay in a coma for nine hours before he died. Several physicians attended Lincoln, including U.S. Army Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes of the Army Medical Museum. Using a probe, Barnes located some fragments of Lincoln's skull and the ball lodged 6 inches (15 cm) inside his brain. Lincoln never regained consciousness and was officially pronounced dead at 7:22:10 a.m. April 15, 1865 at the age of 56. There is some disagreement among historians as to Stanton's words after Lincoln died.
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