Gettysburg store pulls bobblehead dolls of President Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth

[kpete]

Gettysburg store pulls bobblehead dolls of President Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth
Booth dolls were available for one week before they were removed
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 3:52 AM

She declined to state the reason for the decision, and messages left Tuesday for the park and the company that operates the bookstore weren't immediately returned.

The Booth dolls, which are about 7 inches tall and come in boxes that look like the inside of the theater where Lincoln was killed, sell online for about $20 each. They have proved to be popular, as more than 150 of the original run of 250 have been sold, and more are being made, Kansas City, Mo.-based manufacturer BobbleHead LLC said.

"There's a market there," sales manager Matt Powers said. "We like to let the customer decide if it's a good item or not."

Confederate sympathizer Booth shot and killed Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington in April 1865, as the Civil War was ending. He fled and was tracked into Virginia, where he was killed.

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[demosincebirth]

1. Why were they selling them in the first place. It's like selling dolls of Lee Harvey Oswald. What

re people thinking?

[saras]

3. To some, it's more like Nunzilla

http://www.bobbleheads.com/bobbleheads/products.html

http://www.whoopassenterprises.com/bobbleheads-shop/all/

Why Barbara Bush and NOT Lee Harvey Oswald? A "serial killers", or "psychotic world leaders" line of bobbleheads would kick butt.

This one seems to push people's Civil War buttons, as though the entire 150 were sold to racists planning to assassinate Obama or something.

I wouldn't mind the whole set of them, for EVERY president that's been shot. America shoots a LOT of presidents, about one in seven.

[RebelOne]

5. That is the first question that came to my mind.

What were they thinking to have sold those dolls in the first place"

[MineralMan]

2. I'm sure those were popular with the

Confederacy fans. There are lots of them, who think Lincoln's assassination was more than justified, and who think the Confederacy is still alive, deep in their hearts. As the old saying goes, bless their hearts...

[NoGOPZone]

4. Whoever came up with that idea

doesn't have their head screwed on straight.

[Nye Bevan]

6. That's like selling T-shirts with Che Guevara on them. (nt)