4. WHY WASN'T VICE PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON ATTACKED?
George Atzerodt was to go to the Kirkwood House hotel where the vice president lived and kill him. But he lost his nerve. he had even rented the room above Johnson's and had a loaded pistol.
5. HOW DID SECRETARY OF STATE SEWARD SURVIVE DESPITE HAVING HIS THROAT STABBED 2 OR 3 TIMES?
Assassin Lewis Powell gained entry to Seward's house, where the Secretary of State was recuperating from a carriage accident. Seward's son, Frederick was seriously wounded defending his father. William Seward's metal surgical collar protected him.
6. WHERE WAS LINCOLN'S BODYGUARD?
Hard to imagine just one bodyguard protecting a president in this day and age. But, Lincoln did have one, John Parker, who initially left his post at the box door to watch the play and then went to the saloon next door for intermission. This was the same saloon in which John Wilkes Booth was drinking. No one knows where Parker was during the actual assassination, but he sure wasn't at the door to the box.
7. WHERE WAS THE SECRET SERVICE?
It didn't exist then. However, Lincoln had just signed a bill creating it the night before he was assassinated.
--Old Secesh
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