KJM said:John Wilkes Booth goes up to Lincoln, as in OTL. He points the gun at the President's head, pulls the trigger... and the gun misfires.
What happens next?
Grey Wolf said:The gun explodes and kills them both ? Goes down as the most curious assassination in history
Grey Wolf
Melvin Loh said:With Abe alive, then do his plans for Reconsutruction and greater equality for blacks go ahead untramelled ?
Xen said:What exactly were his plans for reconstruction? Would he be somewhere between the Radical Republicans and Andrew Jackson? Does anyone really know?
csa945 said:It was Andrew Johnson. Pretty sure Jackson was dead by then. Easy mistake to make; two Tennesseean Dems named Andrew.