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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 15, 2017 23:49:45 GMT
John Wilkes Booth accidentally forgot to load his derringer prior before visiting Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Furthermore, President Abraham Lincoln was well trained in various forms of martial arts.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 16, 2017 20:37:35 GMT
John Wilkes Booth accidentally forgot to load his derringer prior before visiting Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Furthermore, President Abraham Lincoln was well trained in various forms of martial arts. booth also had a knif with him and second i think major Henry Rathbone who was with the president would be the one to fight Booth instead of the president. Thread move to Pre-1900 as this is not a ASB thread. |
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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 17, 2017 4:01:48 GMT
John Wilkes Booth accidentally forgot to load his derringer prior before visiting Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Furthermore, President Abraham Lincoln was well trained in various forms of martial arts. booth also had a knif with him and second i think major Henry Rathbone who was with the president would be the one to fight Booth instead of the president. Thread move to Pre-1900 as this is not a ASB thread. Lincoln sees someone waving a gun around at him AND he is trained in the martial arts? I think Lincoln would've drop kicked Booth or even tossed him over the balcony before he had a chance to draw his knife. |
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Post by lordroel on Sept 17, 2017 12:38:12 GMT
booth also had a knif with him and second i think major Henry Rathbone who was with the president would be the one to fight Booth instead of the president. Thread move to Pre-1900 as this is not a ASB thread. Lincoln sees someone waving a gun around at him AND he is trained in the martial arts? I think Lincoln would've drop kicked Booth or even tossed him over the balcony before he had a chance to draw his knife. booth came behind him, if the gun fails he like OTL would use the knife he had to complete his mission. |
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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 17, 2017 13:17:33 GMT
And there are many martial arts techniques with which to disarm someone in a similar situation.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 17, 2017 13:21:30 GMT
And there are many martial arts techniques with which to disarm someone in a similar situation. Do not think that Lincoln would do that. |
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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 18, 2017 8:02:10 GMT
Very well, I will go ahead and lock since this timeline was dependent on Lincoln defending himself.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 18, 2017 11:30:03 GMT
Very well, I will go ahead and lock since this timeline was dependent on Lincoln defending himself. Have unlocked this thread as there is nothing wrong here in this thread. |
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Post by mcnutt on Sept 23, 2017 0:35:13 GMT
Lincoln was warming up to votes for Blacks. Maybe he works with Congress to get the right to vote included in the 14th Amendment.
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Post by spanishspy on Sept 24, 2017 4:48:10 GMT
Lincoln was warming up to votes for Blacks. Maybe he works with Congress to get the right to vote included in the 14th Amendment. That was the 15th amendment so I can believe this. |
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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 24, 2017 6:14:03 GMT
Consider the "martial arts training" bit officially retconned as absolutely pointless.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 25, 2017 3:40:10 GMT
Consider the "martial arts training" bit officially retconned as absolutely pointless. That why it is in the ASB board, so it is not pointless, just ASB material. |
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Post by patrick1978 on Sept 25, 2017 10:56:36 GMT
You moved the timeline out of ASB anyways so I went ahead and retconned a rather stupid plot element. I'd edit it out if not for the fact my window expired a long time ago.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 25, 2017 15:01:32 GMT
You moved the timeline out of ASB anyways so I went ahead and retconned a rather stupid plot element. I'd edit it out if not for the fact my window expired a long time ago. If you want you can create a new thread. |
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Post by Dan on Feb 2, 2018 8:07:35 GMT
Looking at the plausibility for a second.
Define Martial Arts.
They are any fighting style so something like Greco-Roman wrestling or boxing wouldn't be unlikely.
So, John Wilkes-Booth has a misfire in his pistol, the primer cap goes off but not the main charge so the gun doesn't fire but the crack from the primer alerts Lincoln. Henry Rathbone attempts to subdue Wilkes-Both, but he breaks free, and pulling his knife dives towards the now alerted President.
Calling on his boxing prowess, he delivers a perfectly timed uppercut to the jaw of John Wilkes-Booth who drops like a sack of flour.
Wilkes-Booth is arrested and taken away, after a short trial is hung.
Sorry Patrick, I hate to say this but your premise is not that implausible. If you've spent your life chopping wood manually, you're going to have a pretty good swing and solid muscles. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that punch to be honest.
I would suspect that the Uppercut punch would be renamed the Lincoln Punch though.
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