This is a straight up time travel story.\u00a0 Peter Corrigan is a member of an elite club in Washington D.C.\u00a0 He and his fellow club members are debating whether it\u2019s possible for someone to go back in time and thereby change history.\u00a0 As he leaves his club, he becomes dizzy outside the door and when he comes to himself, he realizes that everything has changed and appears as it would in the mid-nineteenth century.\u00a0 When he arrives at his home it isn\u2019t his anymore.\u00a0 He talks to the landlady and she agrees to rent him a room.\u00a0 As he\u2019s walking to his room, he hears an army officer who is leaving say that President Lincoln will be at the theater that the officer and his girlfriend are also about to attend.\u00a0 Upon cross-examining the officer, he confirms that the performance is the one that Lincoln attended when Booth assassinated him.<\/p>\n
Peter rushes to the Ford Theater and tries to convince them that Lincoln\u2019s life is in terrible danger.\u00a0 He makes a nuisance of himself and ends up arrested.\u00a0 At the police station he tries to convince the police about the assassination and is about to be jailed when a stranger intercedes with the police and has Peter remanded to his custody.\u00a0 The man introduces himself as Mr. Wellington and takes him to his rooms where he tries to understand how Peter knows what he says he knows.\u00a0 After Peter tells his story Mr. Wellington gives Peter a handkerchief for an injury he sustained with the police and a glass a wine to calm his nerves.\u00a0 But the wine is drugged and Peter passes out.\u00a0 When he awakens, he yells for help and the landlady and a police officer show up.\u00a0 Telling the landlady his story he finds out that the man wasn\u2019t named Wellington but John Wilkes Booth.\u00a0 Now Peter is panicked and he tries to force the policeman to run to the theater and save the President.\u00a0 But it\u2019s too late, Lincoln has already been shot and the news is being shouted on the street.<\/p>\n
Now when Peter walks down the street he is back in the future and he arrives at his club and he tries to tell his former debaters that history cannot be changed even if a man can go back in town.\u00a0 But a curious thing has happened in his absence.\u00a0 A man who was a waiter previously is now a rich club member.\u00a0 By his own narration we find out that the family fortune was founded when his ancestor who was a Washington policeman forcefully attempted to convince the authorities that they should protect Lincoln at Ford\u2019s Theater.\u00a0 This prescience so impressed everyone that he was advanced to authority where his performance brought him riches.\u00a0 So even if some things can\u2019t be changed, others can.\u00a0 When Peter reaches for his handkerchief, he finds one monogrammed JWB (John Wilkes Booth).<\/p>\n
Peter is played by Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan\u2019s Island).\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty clever story and somewhat fun.\u00a0 The only downside is the scene where Peter is at the door of the theater and he is pounding on the door and shouting.\u00a0 It hearkens back to my dislike for any Twilight Zone episode that degenerates into someone shouting wildly at no one visible.<\/p>\n
Because of this I\u2019ll take away a half point B-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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