- At a prominent club in Washington, D.C., a socialite argues about whether it would be possible to change history by traveling back in time. When he leaves the club he finds himself in 1865, on the night that President Lincoln will be shot.
- After debating with a member of his Washington club whether you could go back in time and change major events, Pete Corrigan seems to go back to April 14, 1865 the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He tries his best to warn the authorities of what will happen in a few hours time but it all falls on deaf ears. One person seems interested in what he has to say, but that person may have his own reasons for his behavior.—garykmcd
- In Washington, a group of members of a club discusses whether it I possible to travel in time and change the events or not. When Peter Corrigan is leaving the club, he travels to the night when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Will he be capable to prevent the tragedy?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In 1961 a group of men at a club are arguing, hypothetically, about the effects of time travel and in particular whether it is possible to change the course of history. After leaving the club one of the men is transported back in time to the night of Lincoln's assassination. Can he change history?—grantss
- A group of men play cards at a posh club in modern-day Washington D.C. and discuss the idea of time travel and whether one could, in theory, change the past. One of the men, Peter Corrigan (Russell Johnson), is doubtful, and leaves the club, accidentally colliding with a butler on his way out spilling coffee on his tie. Once outside, he experiences a strange, dizzying sensation as the world seems to shift around him. He decides to head home, but once there, the landlady does not recognize him and is suspicious when he asks for a room, saying she only rents to "acceptable" boarders and asking about his personal history. A couple comes down the stairs on the way to the theatre and the landlady greets them, telling them to "applaud the president." Corrigan asks her what she meant by the comment, and when he looks at the man's antiquated military uniform, he realizes that he has traveled back to 1865, and that it is April 14, the night on which President Lincoln will be shot. He asks the couple about the play they are seeing, and they confirm that it is Our American Cousin at the Ford Theatre, where the assassination took--or will take--place. Shocked, he immediately runs to the theatre and shouts that the president is about to be murdered, but the cop drags him into the courtroom and hits him on the forehead giving him a bruise, and he is arrested and locked up, despite his protests. A man calling himself Mr. Wellington (John Lassell) comes to the station, having heard about Corrigan's arrest, and offers to take the man into his custody to help him. One of the policeman has doubts and wonders if they should take Corrigan seriously, but the sergeant brushes him off and releases Corrigan to Wellington.
Wellington takes the man to his room and pours him a drink, and informs him that he is a psychiatrist, although he is unfamiliar with the futuristic term. He asks about Corrigan's claims, and Corrigan says that he is sure about what is going to happen, but he cannot explain why, knowing it sounds impossible. He stands up and he suddenly starts to feel faint and ill, and realizes that Wellington has drugged him. Wellington lends him his handkerchief, telling him that he is either insane, ill, drunk, or a madman. And needs to rest, and departs. Corrigan struggles valiantly to the door to warn someone about the assassination, but he faints. When he is discovered by a policeman and a chambermaid who noticed that he had fainted, he tells them what happened, but they tell him that no one named Wellington is staying in the house. He looks back at the handkerchief and sees the "J.W.B." monogram and realizes, to his horror, that the man was in fact John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, and that he drugged Corrigan to prevent him interfering. They suddenly hear a crowd outside spreading the news, and Corrigan realizes that he is too late and the murder has already taken place everyone realizes that Corrigan was telling the truth all along. He laments that no one listened to him and goes to the window and angrily bangs on it. And he finds that he is back in the 1960s, as if nothing has happened.
When he goes back into the club, he finds the man with whom he collided previously sitting at the table with the other gentlemen, sharing stories about acquiring wealth. The man talks about how his great-grandfather became wealthy when he infamously tried to warn people of Lincoln's assassination ahead of time, and though he failed, he gained notoriety and eventually became the chief of police and amassed a fortune. Stunned, Corrigan asks the man if he was ever an attendant at the club, and, taken aback, the man replies no, as he has always been a person of wealth. Corrigan states that he now believes it is possible to change some things in the past, although not everything. Reaching into his suit pocket to wipe his sweaty brow, he discovers he still has the handkerchief with the initials J.W.B, and he exits to go back home.
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