dr. leo ordered soldiers to break off the foot of the bed. but it wouldn't come off because it's integral to the construction of the bed. the bed would have collapsed. so they had no choice but to lay abraham lincoln diagonally across the bed. at that point, too many people were in the room. it was hot. and dr. leo ordered people out. he needed to examine the president. he knew he had been shot in the head. but he didn't know if he had other wounds. so once the doctors were alone they stripped lincoln naked and examined him on this bed. as the doctors began their examination of lincoln, they observed that he had no other wounds. they thought he might have been stabbed. because almost everyone in ford's theater had seen john wilkes booth flash that dagger onstage after he leaped from the president's box. lincoln was unwounded but for the shot of a single bullet behind the left ear. as lincoln was lying here on the bed, mary lincoln and her entourage came through the front door of the peterson house and they went to that front parlor. so we'll

dr. bliss. leo was 23 so i could not portray him. >> very good presentation. i'm so delighted you came back. i'm just surprised and delighted to. >> i have a couple of facts here and out of four presidents lincoln, mckinley, they were shot on a friday. garfield than reagan were shot a hundred years apart and both guys that shot him were mentally ill. >> and they kept guiteau in saint elizabeth's rather than a prison. which i think is where they also kept hinkley. >> yes. 's>> there is so many of these coincidence is. kennedy was shot in a ford and lincoln was shot in ford's theater. kennedy's secretary was named mrs. lincoln and yeah -- and both kennedy and lincoln were replaced by vice presidents named johnson. i'm sorry? >> [indiscernible] >> almost 10 years to the day, exactly, yeah. ok. yes, sir, here in the front. >> i have a short question. didn't he have a chief of staff or any presidential advisers? >> not the way we know it today. he had a secretary, mr. brown, who was his surrogate son and who married his daughter. but they had much smaller staff. th