#OTD Feb. 15, 1887: Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865, suffered a mental break & threatened to shoot his coworkers in the Kansas House of Representatives. He was arrested & committed, only to escape the asylum a few months later & vanish into history. #skystorians 🗃
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After having shot Booth through a small hole in a wall despite orders he be taken alive, Corbett said God told him to do it. His CO said God must have, for him to make the shot.