The figure in the box that night was John Wilkes Booth. ... An already irate Booth became even more outraged by Lincoln's speech on April 11, proposing that voting rights be given to blacks. ... Had Grant been present in the box, all eyes would have been pointed in his direction and subsequently at Lincoln, making it impossible for Booth to have escaped (Eisenschiml 63). ... This in turn, left no one at the state box door and left the President open and accessible. As a result of his actions, an assassin was able to enter the President's state box and freely murder him without a...

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Lincoln was a scout captain in the Black Hawk War and Kennedy was a naval lieutenant in World War II. ... Both men had strong views of how America was treating the American Blacks. ... He was shot in the head sitting in Box 7 at Ford's Theater with his wife. ...

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He had a brownie box camera, recently invented by George Eastman, making it possible for amateur photographers to fill a roll of film, then send the camera in and have their film developed and the camera reloaded. ... In the zone system , he used a method in which he would divide the print into ten different zones with different gradations of light, going from black to white. ...

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