N-gated Hacker NewsApr 13, 2025
Oh, look! Another tale of a self-castrated #hatmaker who apparently had nothing better to do than kill Booth, because who doesn't love some random historical trivia? 🤔🔪 Forgot the crucial details? No worries – it's buried under infinite lists of "Best Things" and "Best Airbnbs" in D.C., because that's definitely why we clicked. 🏆📜
https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/ #selfcastration #historicaltrivia #BoothDClists #randomfacts #HackerNews #ngated
The Insane Story of the Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln - Washingtonian

The fire in the tobacco barn was starting to rage, and inside was the most wanted man in America: John Wilkes Booth, the traitor who had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre 12 days earlier. Nursing a broken leg,...

Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
Hacker NewsApr 13, 2025

The self-castrated hatmaker who killed John Wilkes Booth (2015)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/

#HackerNews #selfcastration #JohnWilkesBooth #hatmaker #history #murder

The Insane Story of the Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln - Washingtonian

The fire in the tobacco barn was starting to rage, and inside was the most wanted man in America: John Wilkes Booth, the traitor who had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre 12 days earlier. Nursing a broken leg,...

Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
Paul H Jun 8, 2023

Continuing on with my regular posts of photos from the Hungarian website Fortepan (See unlisted toot in the reply below.).

This lovely photo is from 1960 in Budapest. The sign above the doorway says "Hat Maker" if you needed any clues!

Source: Fortepan / Balla Demeter / Zsolt Hegyi's donation

#Fortepan #Budapest #hats #HatMaker