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Booth's .44 caliber derringer |
Booth Escaping |
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Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold and George Atzerodt hanging |
The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death: Jeremiah Gurney, Jr. took the photo on April 24, 1865, as President Lincoln lay in state in City Hall in New York |
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Preparations for the hanging |
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Ford's Theatre |
Ford's Theatre draped in mourning with guards posted |
Replica of a reward poster |
Abraham Lincoln's rocker at Ford's Theatre |
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The Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre as it looked on the night of the assassination |
Lincoln's final hours |
Lincoln's top hat worn the night of his assassination |
The Our American Cousin set as it looked on the night of the assassination |
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Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance Clara Harris, guests of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln |
Julius Ulke, a boarder at the Petersen House, took this photograph shortly after Lincoln's body was removed |
National Park Service map showing John Wilkes Booth's escape route |
John Wilkes Booth dying on Richard H. Garrett's porch |
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Postmortem examination of Booth's remains aboard the Montauk |
Joseph Burroughs (nicknamed Peanut John) held Booth's horse in the alley in the rear of Ford's Theatre |
The Navy Yard Bridge used by Booth to escape |
The Petersen House where President Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 |
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A Ford's Theatre ticket to see Our American Cousin |
Booth was killed on the property of Richard H. Garrett located 60 miles south of Ford's Theatre near Port Royal, Virginia |
Abraham Lincoln died in this room in the Petersen House |
The small passageway to the Ford's Theatre Presidential Box which guard John F. Parker abandoned |
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The items in Abraham Lincoln's pockets when he was assassinated |
The carriage that took the Lincolns to Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865 |
Booth also made plans in case Abraham Lincoln went to the play at Grover's Theatre |
Mary Surratt's boardinghouse in Washington; it was here that President Andrew Johnson said she "kept the nest that hatched the egg." |
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The knife used by Booth to stab Henry Rathbone at Ford's Theatre |
John Wilkes Booth's diary |
The conspirators were buried in shallow graves located at the side of the gallows |
Ford's Theatre playbill for Our American Cousin |
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The National Hotel where John Wilkes Booth occupied room 228 prior to the assassination |
Osborn Oldroyd photo of Mary Surratt's tavern in Surrattsville where Booth and Herold stopped on the night of the assassination |
Oldroyd photo of the gate leading from the main road to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house |
Oldroyd photo of Dr. Samuel Mudd's house where Booth's broken leg was set |
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Conspirator George Atzerodt rented a room at the Kirkwood House where Vice-President Andrew Johnson was staying |
John Wilkes Booth was surrounded in Richard Garrett's barn |
David Herold surrendered, but Booth didn't; the barn was set on fire |
Boston Corbett shot John Wilkes Booth in the burning barn |
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Secretary of State William Seward's home |
Lewis Powell waits outside William Seward's home (ARTWORK BY LEWIS POWELL BIOGRAPHER BETTY OWNSBEY) |
Sketch of Lewis Powell's knife attack on William Seward (SOURCE: The Assassination and History of the Conspiracy (Cincinnati, J.R. Hawley & Co., 1865) |
Seward's second waiter, William Bell, identified Lewis Powell as the attacker |