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Luigi Lucheni was apprehended almost immediately though. He was a deranged lunatic with no escape plan because he knew he wasn't escaping, hence the audacity of the assassination (indeed, he had a goal of being martyred). Similar thing happened with Archduke Franz Ferdinand. And these freaks...

Having looked into the assassination, I can only conclude Lincoln's security were morons. How else was an armed man able to walk into the President's box, mortally wound him, then flee the scene? The bloody Praetorian Guard would have foiled this without much trouble. What excuse did Lincoln's...