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Billy Campbell and Jesse Johnson in Killing Lincoln (2013)

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Killing Lincoln

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Factual errors

At one point Booth is whistling the minstrel show song "Kingdom Come, or Year of Jubilo," but the DVD subtitles misidentify the tune as "Dixie."
Booth goes to Ford's Theatre immediately after the Lincolns and the guests arrived, but he actually arrived one hour and 5 minutes later in reality.
The narrator says that Booth arrived at the theater before noon, but in real life, Booth arrived at almost the same time Lincoln was in a meeting with his cabinet members.
Hanks uses the terms "ironclad monitor" and "ironclad monitors" to describe ironclad ships. The Monitor was an ironclad vessel; the second of its kind and the first to serve in the federal navy. Other ships of a similar type were simply called ironclads. An "ironclad monitor" is not a type of ship.
The narrator stated that Booth arrived at the Navy Yard Bridge at 10:35 pm. But other historical accounts stated that Booth arrived at the bridge shortly before 11 pm while Lincoln was being re-examined by his physicians.

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Hanks mispronounces "cavalry" every time, saying "cavary".

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When the photograph is being taken of Booth's autopsy, narrator Tom Hanks refers to Secretary of War Stanton as "Secretary of State Stanton."
When 7 men carried Abraham Lincoln's body across from Ford's Theater, Dr Charles Leale wasn't wearing a coat when he did in reality.
In the beginning, Lewis Powell refers to William Bell as the butler, but in reality, Bell was Seward's house waiter since he was in his early 20's.
The narrator says that " at 4:30 am, April 15, Booth and Herold arrived at the home of Dr Samuel Mudd." According to some accounts, it was a little before 4:00 am, when Booth and Herold arrived at Mudd's house.
When Boston Corbett shoots John Wilkes Booth, Booth was wearing a coat when he didn't in reality. He also partly shaved his mustache to make him less recognizable.

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