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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Lincoln and a Chicago reporter were looking at what is believed to this photo at Lincoln's home shortly after his nomination for president, when he observed "That picture gives a very fair representation of my homely face." [57] June 1860 [58] unknown Halftone print, from an albumen print from the lost original negative. [59] unknown
[149] [151] In Booth's pockets were found a compass, a candle, pictures of five women (actresses Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, Fannie Brown, and Booth's fiancée Lucy Hale), and his diary, where he had written of Lincoln's death, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment." [152]
Deathbed of Lincoln (OHA 217), National Museum of Health and Medicine. Description: Pencil on paper sketch by Hermann Faber of the death room of Abraham Lincoln, drawn on April 15, 1865. Faber, a hospital steward serving at the Surgeon General's Office, drew the scene at the request of Drs. Barnes and Woodward of the Medical Museum.
Per Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial And Execution by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg, pp. 24-25, 181 this image was taken closest in time to the moment the sentence was actually carried out. Hence the motion blur. And more specifically, "death struggles" (Swanson and Weinberg, 181). Durova 371 02:05, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were sitting with Lincoln and Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln when the president was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
President Lincoln in his death bed at Petersen's boarding house, surrounded by doctors, military officers and other officials. This photograph shows the passing of President Lincoln, changing the landscape on how the Union was to be rebuilt after the Civil War Nominated by User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 00:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Comments
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