If Ford’s Theatre had been in Baltimore, if the patient had been taken to the state Shock Trauma Center and if 1865 were 2007 … Abraham Lincoln might have survived the gunshot wound to his head.

Dispatches from Secretary Stanton Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater in Washington at half-past nine o’clock last ... and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal.

Researchers find report from first doctor to treat Lincoln after gunshot wound Associated Press Published June 7, 2012 1:47pm EDT | Updated October 26, 2015 4:30pm EDT ...

Updated at 12:57 p.m. ET on July 13, 2020. Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated, convinced that he would not outlast the rebellion when his work would have been done.