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Hundreds of Terrorists? At 10:15 p.m., as the Lincolns sat watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth made his way unnoticed into the presidential box, fired a bullet into the back of the President's head, and escaped across the stage to his horse in the back alley. Where was Lincoln's bodyguard? John F. Parker, of the Washington police force, was drinking at a bar next door; he had deserted his post at the door to the presidential box, through which the assassin passed. Who was Parker? A questionable type with...
...While Booth galloped over the Navy Yard bridge into southern Maryland, official Washington collapsed in "inert panic." Instead of directing pursuit of the assassin, the capital's police chief, who was in the audience and saw him, rushed off to tell his detectives to gather witnesses. Four soldiers bore the mortally wounded President to a tailor's house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from...
Each student navigator sits in a booth below the starry sphere. Above his desk are instruments that tell the air speed, altitude, gyrocompass reading and other flight data about the airplane he is supposed to be navigating...
Then Neuberger quoted his old friend, Publisher Palmer Hoyt (Denver Post), on the fact that the Neubergers had comprised 15% of the tiny Democratic delegation in Republican Salem. "I've heard of politicians caucusing in a telephone booth," Hoyt had said, "but it's the first time I've known you could caucus in bed." Having run through his quips, the new Senator proceeded to batter those politicians who had resorted to "character assassination" in 1954-to the acute annoyance of Republicans in his audience. Washington's fleeting mood of bipartisan sweetness and light was jarred...
Another exhibit is used to demonstrate TIME'S broad readership. This is our Post Office Booth, where we have a file of the names and addresses of all U.S. TIME subscribers broken down by states. The people attending a convention are invited to look over the list of our subscribers in their own home towns. Usually they are challenged to name a post office anywhere in the U.S. which does not have at least one TIME subscriber. If by chance they can do so, they get a prize of a silver dollar...