Okay, so the following is a message to my friend Andrew:
When President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. he was shot in the back of the head near his left ear, not in the neck. The following comes directly from Wikipedia:


Booth knew the play by heart, and thus waited for the precise moment when actor Harry Hawk (playing the lead role of the "cousin", Asa Trenchard), would be onstage alone, engaging the audience with what was considered to be the funniest line of the play. Booth hoped to employ the enthusiastic response of the audience to muffle the sound of his gunshot. With the stage to himself, Hawk (Asa) responded to the recently departed Mrs Mountchessington, "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal; you sockdologizing old man-trap!" With hysterical laughter permeating the theatre, Booth opened the door, crept forward and shot the President in the back of the head, behind his left ear.^[24] Lincoln immediately slumped forward in his rocking chair, mortally wounded.


So now you know that I was right. Check the facts if you want, but you'll still find that you owe me $5.