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(698) Death Gun

(698) Death Gun

Broadcast: 1959
Added: Jan 28 2019

On Good Friday, April 14th 1865, during a performance of Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. a shot rang out which reverberated around the world. The gun which assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, was a 41 calibre double barrelled Deringer. Ten years later, its lethal use was widespread on the frontier of our west by gamblers, gunmen and grifters - in fact anyone who had need of a hideout gun...