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Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., site of the assassination of
U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
(Photograph by Mathew Brady)
Lithograph of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From
left to right: Henry Rathbone,
Clara Harris,
Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth.
The Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was
assassinated.
The gun Booth used to kill Lincoln. In the Ford's Theatre basement
museum.
When Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C. on April 14, 1865, he
was carrying
two pairs of spectacles and
a lens polisher, a pocketknife, a watch fob, a linen
handkerchief,
and a brown
leather wallet containing a five-dollar Confederate note
and
nine newspaper clippings, including several favorable to the
president and his policies.
The top hat Lincoln wore on the night of the assassination.
President Lincoln on his death bed.
(From Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1865)
The "Old Nashville." The locomotive pulled the funeral train of
President Abraham Lincoln
from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.
The victim
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th
President of United States.
Lincoln on the White House balcony, March 6, 1865. This is the last
known
high-quality photograph of Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's last formal
photograph, taken February 5, 1865 by Alexander Gardner.
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