Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln I am doing my research paper on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I am going to tell you a little bit why and how the President was assassinated was it because of his goodness or was it because he tried to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a man named “John Wilkes Booth”. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and the president had a wife and one son their names are Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on “April 14, 1865” in Washington at a play called Our “American Cousin”. Lincoln and his wife were sitting in a box circle and they were watching the play. “John Wilkes Booth” was an “Actor” in the play so when Booth
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Samuel Mudd home so that Dr. Mudd could treat his leg. Dr. Mudd asked booth what happened booth told Dr. Mudd it came from when his horse fell. Dr. Charles D. Brown did the autopsy on Lincoln’s brain. Dr. Brown said that when he was lifting the brain from his skull cavity the bullet suddenly dropped from his fingers on to the floor. Brown said that the bullet was a little black mass no bigger than the end of his finger. After the autopsy was completed they covered the body with a clean white sheet and took Lincoln’s suit back to his wife Mary. Booth was hiding in pine thicket In Charles County Maryland. Booth and Herold tried to escape by crossing the Potomac River but they failed and ended right back up to where they started from in Fort Royal Virginia. They waited the next day and a half to cross the river. While booth and Herold where trying to escape detectives came to Dr. Mudd house asking him and his wife if they had seen Booth on the loose. Booth and Herold finally leave the hiding place in Nanjemoy Creek. They finally cross the river where they land near the home of Elizabeth Quesenberry. They ask Quesenberry if she has two spare horses she sends for Thomas Harbin. Harbin arranges to get Booth and Herold a horse and a guide to help them on their way. A man named William Bryant takes Booth and Herold to the home of Dr. Richard Stuart. They arrive at his summer home Cleydael around 8:00 P.M. He sends Booth
Samuel Mudd home so that Dr. Mudd could treat his leg. Dr. Mudd asked booth what happened booth told Dr. Mudd it came from when his horse fell. Dr. Charles D. Brown did the autopsy on Lincoln’s brain. Dr. Brown said that when he was lifting the brain from his skull cavity the bullet suddenly dropped from his fingers on to the floor. Brown said that the bullet was a little black mass no bigger than the end of his finger. After the autopsy was completed they covered the body with a clean white sheet and took Lincoln’s suit back to his wife Mary. Booth was hiding in pine thicket In Charles County Maryland. Booth and Herold tried to escape by crossing the Potomac River but they failed and ended right back up to where they started from in Fort Royal Virginia. They waited the next day and a half to cross the river. While booth and Herold where trying to escape detectives came to Dr. Mudd house asking him and his wife if they had seen Booth on the loose. Booth and Herold finally leave the hiding place in Nanjemoy Creek. They finally cross the river where they land near the home of Elizabeth Quesenberry. They ask Quesenberry if she has two spare horses she sends for Thomas Harbin. Harbin arranges to get Booth and Herold a horse and a guide to help them on their way. A man named William Bryant takes Booth and Herold to the home of Dr. Richard Stuart. They arrive at his summer home Cleydael around 8:00 P.M. He sends Booth