Talk:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's premonitions
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)


 * 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)
 * sounds like it should only be mentioned in passing NotQualified (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, let's under any and all circumstances dump all over any possibility of the paranormal really existing, let's do, it's an absolute must. Jersey Jan (talk) 17:22, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * As a matter of fact, yes. EEng 17:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think the article says what you think it says.
 * The paranormal investigator the article references is Joe Nickell, who is a skeptic. He investigates the paranormal, but only to perform what he always believes is a debunking.  The article states that Nickell "wrote that dreams of assassination would not be unexpected, considering the Baltimore Plot and an additional assassination attempt in which a hole was shot through Lincoln's hat."  In other words, because Lincoln received assassination threats (Nickell mentions only one, but there were many) and had survived one attempt, it is only logical that the possibility of assassination would be on his mind, and this in turn would lead to dreams of assassination.  Ergo, the dream was not a true premonition.  I myself, who am intensely interested in and open minded regarding the paranormal, also take this view. Jersey Jan (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)