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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)
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Lithograph of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From
left to right: Henry Rathbone,
Clara Harris,
Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth.
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The Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was
assassinated.
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The gun Booth used to kill Lincoln. In the Ford's Theatre basement
museum.
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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.
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The top hat Lincoln wore on the night of the assassination.
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President Lincoln on his death bed.
(From Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1865)
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The "Old Nashville." The locomotive pulled the funeral train of
President Abraham Lincoln
from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.
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The victim
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