Colorized 1865 photo of Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell

[TheGreatParis]

[TheGreatParis]

To me he looks like a young, murderous Buddy Ebsen.

[anon24181555]

I’ve never seen Mark Twain at this age before

[MrWoods]

Clearly a male model/actor: http://youtu.be/EUvgqItrt1c

[Woodchuck45]

[s2redux]

@frauenfelder

I always forget that the world wasn’t black and white in the olden days.

::sigh:: This misconception again. Maybe the official explainer will clear things up:

[Brainspore]

@SamWinston

Why are the hot ones always crazy?

And don’t forget that the trigger man (Booth) was more or less the Brad Pitt of his time.

[Missy_Pants]

I though that was his brother?

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=19

[L_Mariachi]

Aw man, you beat me to it.

[aeon]

Is it bad that I consider Calvin’s Dad a positive role model?

[Brainspore]

Wait, so you’re saying John Wilkes was more akin to some kind of “lesser Baldwin?” I guess that would actually explain a lot.