Could Modern Doctors Have Saved Abraham Lincoln? A Hundred Yards on a Stranger’s Shoulders Isn’t an Ambulance Service
A British comedy on stage, a twenty-three-year-old army surgeon in the audience, and a bed too short for the patient WASHINGTON, 15 April 1865 – Abraham Lincoln died at twenty-two minutes past seven in the morning in a rented bedroom across the road from Ford’s Theatre. He had been shot the night before while watching a play, and he lingered for nine hours without regaining consciousness. A modern reader wants…