Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A Guy Who Carried Lincoln

This guy is Bwana Jr.'s Great-Great-Grandfather.


His name was Johnson.


He was in the Civil War, in the Union Army.


He was in Ford's Theater the night Lincoln was shot.


He helped carry Lincoln to the hotel across the street.


He got blood all over him, and the handbill from that night's performance.

This is it.

12 comments:

ESN-TNS said...

fast forward a century or two and here I am, his descendant making a documentary about racial/class boundries in west phila

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slyboots2 said...

I like a good show and tell.

(S)wine said...

fantastic.
i cannot claim anyone
in my family
ever did
anything.

Bwana said...

Oddly, Bwana Jr looks kinda like him ... when he's go his beard going on.

slyboots2 said...

Well then for God's sakes, keep that boy out of the theaters! And away from the President- any president.

ESN-TNS said...

i go where i want

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