John Wilkes Booth Bobblehead

[Jangler]

http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120315/NEWS0107/203150376/

The bookstore at the Gettysburg National Military Park has decided that it’s not such a great idea to sell a bobblehead of John Wilkes Booth, the notorious Confederate sympathizer and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

The dolls were on sale for about a week, then pulled from the shelf Saturday after Park Superintendent Bob Kirby and Gettysburg Foundation President Joanne Hanley considered criticisms of the doll and agreed that selling a wacky figurine of a guy who murdered one of the nation’s most revered public figures was more or less unbecoming.

“After review, the superintendent and I agreed the item was inappropriate and that we should pull the item from the shelves, and our store manager of course agreed to do so,” Hanley said in a statement.

Matt Powers, sales manager for The Bobblehead, LLC, the Kansas City, Mo., manufacturer of the doll, said that the company’s Lincoln doll, which is still for sale at Gettysburg, has always been a big seller.

“And who’s more tied in with Lincoln than John Wilkes Booth? It just made sense from that standpoint,” Powers said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s not as if Booth is holding a gun up to Lincoln’s head or something. ... it’s an educational piece, too.”

The Booth doll is sold out, Powers said, but the company is taking pre-orders for a new batch on its website.

It’s available for $19.95, along with dolls representing Kim Jong Il, Joe the Plumber, a chimpanzee and a Marie Curie that glows in the dark.

Too soon?

[Mother Grabber]

Too soon...ha!

[mav1234]

“It’s not as if Booth is holding a gun up to Lincoln’s head or something. ... it’s an educational piece, too.”

lol bobblehead assassination

[Anybodyhome]

...and people are complaining about a Booth bobblehead?

[Jangler]

...and people are complaining about a Booth bobblehead?

I get it. Sell it, just not there. It like selling a Oswald plush doll at the JKF library....not in good taste.

[EMSMedic79]

Too soon?

Or too late? :)

[Chimera]

other murderers get bobbleheads

[Bronn]

[g5jamz]

Who would buy the damned thing.

[j2sgam]

[Murph]

the notorious Confederate sympathizer and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

Of course Confederate sympathizer would be mentioned first. Obviously the most horrible of horrible offenses one could ever be known for.

[g5jamz]

Did you know...

During the late 1800s, the entertainment industry felt the need to erect a statue in honor of William Shakespeare and put it in Central Park in New York City. In order to raise funding for the statue, a committee was formed and three brothers of reknowned Shakesperean works travelled and put on shows.

Edwin Booth was the considered the greatest actor of his time and led the initiative and recruited his two brothers, also very famous actors of their time. Edwin's brothers? Junius Brutus and none other than John Wilkes...

So when you're in Central Park and you see the statue of Shakespeare...know that none other than John Wilkes was a pivotal part of putting it there.

and NOW you know...the REST of the story.

[CarolinaNCSU]

I'd probably get one, but I'm a history nerd. Not like buying the thing is celebrating Lincoln getting shot...just a historical trinket IMO.