A Bullet, A President And An ER

Mechanical glass slide depiction of John Wilkes Booth leaning forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. 15 April 1865. By T. M. McAllister of New York, c1865-75. CC-PD-Mark
 

Many historians have debated how our country might be different today if Lincoln had lived to see the country through the critical Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. In the debut story from the podcast Sick, reporter Jake Harper asks a different question: if he’d been given modern medical treatment, could Lincoln’s life have been saved?

Sick. is a podcast about health and medicine. But, like, weird health and medicine. It's produced in partnership with WFYI and Sound Medicine News.