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Silas T. Cobb was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 09 January 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Lincoln's premonitions edit

Latest comment: 4 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I cannot believe that a serious encyclopedia would contain a sentence quoting a "paranormal investigator" and his opinion on Lincoln's reported premonitions. That part should be deleted. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:09, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Or perhaps we should add the opinions of astrologers and phrenologists as well. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

sounds like it should only be mentioned in passing NotQualified (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Photos & text edit

Latest comment: 25 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Photos used to illustrate this article are now out of sequence with the corresponding text. Just an FYI to other editors - over the next few days I am going to attempt to bring everything into agreement with each other, which might necessitate putting some of the images on the left of the article's text, etc. Before any reverts of my edits let's discuss them here please. Thanks. Shearonink (talk) 15:08, 30 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

removed text about other targets / ticket rejections edit

Latest comment: 4 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

another editor has removed my edit about other targets and people rejecting the tickets. can we have group consensus on if what i said was worthy of being presented in this article or should be modified or removed entirely NotQualified (talk) 14:24, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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