| 1863/11/09 |
John Wilkes Booth |
Actor |
President Lincoln watches Booth play Raphael in Charles Selby's "The Marble Heart" at Ford's Theater. Lincoln requested to meet the actor after the play but Booth refused. |
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| 1863/11/09 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Audience Member |
President Lincoln watches Booth play Raphael in Charles Selby's "The Marble Heart" at Ford's Theater. Lincoln requested to meet the actor after the play but Booth refused. |
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| 1865/03/18 |
John Wilkes Booth |
Actor |
In what will be the last appearance of his career, John Wilkes Booth plays Duke Pescara in "The Apostate". |
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| 1865/04/14 |
Dr Charles A Leale |
Physician |
Dr Charles Leale tends to Abraham Lincoln, sending others for brandy and water. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
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William T Kent retrieves Booth's pistol from the floor of the Presidential Box and gives it to investigators. It will be submitted as evidence in the conspirators' trial in May and June of 1865 and then deposited with the War Department. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
John Wilkes Booth |
Conspiracy leader, assassin |
John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
Joseph Madison Hershey |
Witness |
Eye witnesses hear him shout, "Sic semper tyrannis! (Thus always to tyrants!)". |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Victim |
A bullet strikes Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head and tears through his brain where it lodges behind his right eye. The bullet is on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine located at 2500 Linden Lane in Silver Spring, MD. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
John Wilkes Booth |
Conspiracy leader, assassin |
John Wilkes Booth leaps from the president's box and crashes onto the stage. Booth fractures his leg in the fall, but is able to escape out a rear entrance to a waiting horse. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
Mary Todd Lincoln |
Witness and grieving widow |
John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
Henry Rathbone |
Defender |
Major Rathbone shouts "Stop that man!" and grabs John W Booth. Booth stabs Rathbone with a dagger, slicing to the bone from shoulder to elbow. Rathbone grabs Booth's coat as the assassin leaps. |
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/04/14 |
John Wilkes Booth |
Conspiracy leader, assassin |
John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. |
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End of the American Civil War |
| 1865/04/14 |
Mary Todd Lincoln |
Witness and grieving widow |
John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. |
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End of the American Civil War |
| 1931/00/00 |
Ulysses S Grant III |
Work |
Ulysses Grant request that Booth's pistol be moved from the Petersen House to Ford's Theatre. The US Army Adjutant General refuses, stating that it "would have more of an appeal for the morbid or weak-minded than for the students of history." |
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| 1997/00/00 |
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The FBI authenticates that Booth's derringer is the gun used to assassinate President Lincoln. |
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