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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 516936, member: 4626&quot;]Which was quite ironic, considering Booth&#039;s assassination plot targeted Stanton too.&nbsp; Stanton survived because the would-be assassin oddly chose a knife rather than a gun as a weapon, and the knife kept deflecting off of Stanton&#039;s back brace (he hurt his back in a wagon accident a few days earlier) and thus never delivered any fatal wounds, though he received several nasty cuts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The assassination plot also included vice-president Andrew Johnson, but the person who was supposed to shoot him lost the nerve and never went through with it.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve seen pictures of Johnson it&#039;s easy to believe someone would find him very intimidating!</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end the only target of the plot Booth successfully took out was Lincoln.&nbsp; The conspiracy was thus only 1/3 successful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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