Last night on April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate advocate shot our nation's President. This occurred at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes Booth has planned many attempts to assassinate the President. Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838. At 10:15 Booth slipped into the President’s box and shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber single shot derringer after puncturing Henry Rathbone a young army officer with a knife who instantly rushed at John Wilkes Booth trying to apprehend him before he could get away. Booth ran on stage and shouted to the people there the Virginia state motto “Sic semper tyrannis” which means “Thus ever to tyrants”. At first the crowd thought this was part of the play and followed along with Booth, but a scream from the first lady told them that they
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The Vice President Andrew Johnson, members of Lincoln’s cabinet, and many of his closest friends stood still at the side of Lincoln’s bed and waited until his death at 7:22 a.m. The first lady lay on a bed in the room beside Lincolns with her eldest son Robert with her there, touched with misery, desolation, and sorrow. The president's body was placed in a short-term coffin with an American flag over the casket. He was taken to the White House for a diligent autopsy completed by Edward Curtis determining that the bullet was heard dropping into a water dish in the removal of the brain. Mary Lincoln sent a letter to the surgeon saying that he clip a lock of Lincoln's hair for her to keep in his memory. The president’s corpse is to be taken to the White House on April 18 for a funeral. On April 21 his body is to be boarded on a train that travels to Springfield, Illinois. where he had lived before becoming president, and for John Wilkes Booth, who is still on the run will forever be a hated enemy of our
The Vice President Andrew Johnson, members of Lincoln’s cabinet, and many of his closest friends stood still at the side of Lincoln’s bed and waited until his death at 7:22 a.m. The first lady lay on a bed in the room beside Lincolns with her eldest son Robert with her there, touched with misery, desolation, and sorrow. The president's body was placed in a short-term coffin with an American flag over the casket. He was taken to the White House for a diligent autopsy completed by Edward Curtis determining that the bullet was heard dropping into a water dish in the removal of the brain. Mary Lincoln sent a letter to the surgeon saying that he clip a lock of Lincoln's hair for her to keep in his memory. The president’s corpse is to be taken to the White House on April 18 for a funeral. On April 21 his body is to be boarded on a train that travels to Springfield, Illinois. where he had lived before becoming president, and for John Wilkes Booth, who is still on the run will forever be a hated enemy of our