On the night Lincoln was assassinated, his bodyguard, a police officer named John Frederick Parker, left his post at the theater. While Parker was away, the president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Consider the role of chance in history. How might Reconstruction been different if Lincoln had lived to oversee its implementation?

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21 August, 06:50

On the night Lincoln was assassinated, his bodyguard, a police officer named John Frederick Parker, left his post at the theater. While Parker was away, the president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Consider the role of chance in history. How might Reconstruction been different if Lincoln had lived to oversee its implementation?

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Aisha Lewis · Answer 1

On the night Lincoln was assassinated, his bodyguard, a police officer named John Frederick Parker, left his post at the theater. While Parker was away, the president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Consider the role of chance in history. How might Reconstruction been different if Lincoln had lived to oversee its implementation?

Jorge Reid · Answer 2

Answer: He would have ask for more bodyguard or Just not go to the Theater that night.

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I think if Lincoln could oversee this problem on that night he would have ask for more bodyguards or just not go to watch the play that night and get his assassination arrested.