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When shooting Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth timed his shot so that the noise would be masked by the audience’s laughter. Being an actor, he knew the play Lincoln was watching by heart. Lincoln was laughing when shot.

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John Wilkes Booth timed the deadly shot he fired at Abraham Lincoln with the funniest line from “My American Cousin,” knowing the laughter would drown out the gunshot. That line was “You sockdologizing old man-trap.”

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1. Leslie Coffelt, who was killed defending Harry Truman from an assassination attempt. Shot by an assassin 4 times, Coffelt propped himself up against a guard booth and fired one shot, hitting the assassin in the head and killing him. Coffelt collapsed immediately and died four hours later.

2. Robert Lincoln, Abe Lincoln's son, was in line at an elevated station platform. The train mistakenly moved causing him to fall through an opening, but he was pulled up just in time to be saved. The hero was Edwin Booth, brother of the man who went on to assassinate Abe Lincoln 1-2 years later.

3. The last words Abe Lincoln heard before being shot were "you sockdologizing old man-trap," from the play Our American Cousin. It was a punchline, and John Wilkes Booth timed his assassination for the laughter after the line.

4. Because the BBC thought it would be a flop, for writing, performing and filming Fawlty Towers, John Cleese and Connie Booth were paid a mere £6000. Each season took nearly one year to shoot. Today Fawlty Towers is the most critically revered BBC sitcom of all time.

5. John Wilkes Booth was considered one of the top actors of his time, earning 500,000 in today's money.

6. About the steamboat Sultana. It exploded on 4/27/1865 and killed over 1700 people, by far the worst maritime disaster in US history. Few knew about it at the time because it was overshadowed in the news by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

7. President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had the photos of four actress "girlfriends" as well as one of his fiancée at the time of his death in 1865.

8. Before automated recording existed, people were employed as a "Speaking Clock." A caller would phone in, a light would turn on in a booth, and the "Speaking Clock" would recite the time every ten seconds until the caller hung up.