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A piece of thoracic tissue removed from John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln A section of the brain of Charles J. Guiteau , the assassin of President James A. Garfield The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection, a collection of 2,374 swallowed or inhaled objects that Dr. Jackson extracted from patients’ throats ...
The museum has a collection of more than 25,000 specimens assembled by Mütter . [11] Today, it includes a vertebra of John Wilkes Booth, a piece of Albert Einstein's brain, [12] a cancerous growth from the mouth of President Grover Cleveland and the livers and plaster cast of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng. [11] [1]
John Wilkes Booth was played by John Derek in the film Prince of Players (1955), a biography of Edwin Booth (played by Richard Burton). [184] Bradford Dillman played Booth in the 1977 film The Lincoln Conspiracy, based on the book with the same name speculating that Booth was the instrument of men in the government planning Lincoln's murder.
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, take a road trip along John Wilkes Booth's escape route through Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
Charles Julius Guiteau (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ t oʊ / ghih-TOH; September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American man who assassinated James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, in 1881.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth According to a statement made by associated conspirator George Atzerodt, discovered long after his death and recorded while he was in federal custody on May 1, 1865, Mudd knew in advance about Booth's plans; Atzerodt was sure the doctor knew, he said, because Booth had "sent (as he told me) liquors and provisions ... about two weeks before the murder to Dr ...
Booth-Grossman family papers, 1840-1953, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; A Brief Description of John Wilkes Booth's Family, from the Surratt House Museum; Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was assassinated; Harper's Weekly contemporary account of the assassination; Death of John Wilkes By ...