· Did you know that Abraham Lincoln supposedly foresaw his own assassination in a dream? What do you think?

Question

about it?

Answer 1

I did know that. I find it interesting, and it probably really did happen. I think some people really are that intuned with this world on physical and spiritual levels, and Abraham Lincoln seems like one of them. Sometimes people just know they are about to go. It happened with my grandmother- she just knew.
It's a pretty interesting phenomenon if you ask me!

Answer 2

I don't know about foreseeing the actual killing, but he did have a dream where he was walking through the White House, and approached the East Room, where he met a soldier standing guard. He asked "Who is dead in the White House?" and the guard replied "the President".

He laid in state in the East Room before being transferred to the Capitol.

There were episodes where he was in grave danger. He sneaked into the capital in 1861, because of a reported assassination plot. During the War, when he and the family were spending summers living at the Soldier's Home, outside the city, he was nearly killed. Against advice of his bodyguards, the President would frequently ride alone between the White House and the Soldier's home. In one instance, he was fired on. He spurred his horse on and ended up losing his hat. By the time the soldiers posted as his guard arrived, the shooter was long gone.

The original Booth plan was to kidnap the President on one of these trips and hold him until the U.S. Government agreed to let the South go.. When Lee surrendered, it ended that plan.

I believe that a large number of people suspected that he would be killed. His friend Ward Lamon would sleep on the floor outside the President's bedroom as a kind of last stand if anyone got past the guards downstairs. The Lincoln's would frequently go out into the city without guards, and it was a disagreement over these trips that caused Lamon and Lincoln to quarrel one day and, as Lamon's Recollections of Abraham Lincoln says "that was the last time I ever saw my friend alive".

It would seem like Washington was a safe place for the President to be, but it was hardly the case. Washington was (and is) a southern city and people who supported the rebels were to be found all over.

I am attaching a link to Ward Lamon's Recollections from the Illinois Digital Archives.

Answer 3

Unless this mysterious disease causes people named John Wilkes Booth to shoot those infected, it's highly unlikely. And Bill O'Reilly already did the research into Lincoln's last few years. Read "Killing Lincoln."

Answer 4

I'd have to have evidence from before the assassination. In such cases above all, hindsight is 20-20.
Diana Pss of Wales had a whole battery of astrologers, but none of them noticied anything before 31.8.97. Yet now once again you have the 'Ooh, they say Dodi had a premonition' crowd.

Answer 5

He was at peace and he was ready to die. Most people who are 'ready' to die already know what's coming their way. Embracing what's coming your way is a sign of acceptance and at a certain degree, wanting that to happen. Not that Abraham Lincoln wanted someone to kill him... but what his dream suggests is precisely that he was bracing himself for it.

Btw, did you know that Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have a very rare disease - a genetic syndrome by the name of MEN 2B?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/11/26/ST2007112600664.html

Cheers.
And R.I.P a great man. :)

Answer 6

He would've been a very troubled man and things like that played heavy on his mind. It's no wonder he would have had nightmares like that.

Answer 7

'Famous' controversial figureheads are very likely assasination targets.

Its a consequence of a way of life.

And I believe they know the reality of their calling.

Answer 8

Hang on, I'll ask Doris Stokes! Bulls**t!!

Answer 9

I think it could have been very well possible...I believe in that. Do you???

Answer 10

If he did he would probably have ducked.