Russell Johnson (The Professor from Gilligan’s Island) sits at a table and discusses in the posh club and discusses the possibility of changes events in the past, if one could travel through time. Finishing the card game, he gets up to leave, and as he does, runs into William the attendant, spilling some coffee. Just outside the club door, he has a minor irritation of his head, and before he knows it, he’s gone back through time nearly 100 years, to the night of President Lincoln’s assassination.
Unfortunately, he can’t get anyone to believe him. No one, it seems, but Mr. Wellington, an investigator from the president’s own staff. Also known as one Mr. Booth, who rents a room and is apparently an actor of some sort. A policeman also wants to believe, but can’t find any reason to do so, and upon his return to the present day, attendant William is gone – until he returns to the card table, to find William playing cards as a member of the club.
It turns out that his great grandfather tried to warn people the night of Lincoln’s great calamity, but no one would believe him. He was a policeman or something, and though no one knows how he knew what was to happen, it garnered him a bit of fame, and he parlayed that into a career in politics and that into a small fortune, whch served William well. So while it was not possible to save Lincoln, it turns out that the past could be changed, at least a bit.
