Famous deaths — would modern medical technology have been able to save the victims? A doctor in Montana offers his opinion: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, James Garfield and William McKinley would have made it. Robert Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln would probably have lived but been in bad shape and probably never well enough to participate in government again. Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Julius Caesar, though, even modern medical technology would have been unable to help and they’d have died anyway.