Could Lincoln Have Been Saved

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William Englebert Could Lincoln Have Been Saved? (Coronet Magazine, 1941) By Otto Eisenschiml This article is about whether Abraham Lincoln could have been saved with modern technology. Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Booth with a Derringer pistol no farther than two feet away making a perfect hole in his head. Dr. Charles A Leale tended to Lincoln’s wound, with him and some other gentlemen they took him to the white house, the doctors cleared away the clots of blood in his head, Dr. Leale felt a circular piece of bone torn out by the bullet and easily took it out using it as a valve, controlling the oozing of the blood. His superior officers decided to probe for the bullet and thought they had succeeded in locating it by inserting fingers

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