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The Garretts were unaware of Lincoln's assassination; Booth was introduced to them as "James W. Boyd", a Confederate soldier, they were told, who had been wounded in the Siege of Petersburg and was returning home. [144] Garrett's 11-year-old son Richard was an eyewitness to the event.
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 was taken to a boarding house across the street where he died nine hours later. Booth was found by soldiers on April 27. Wielding a gun and refusing to surrender, Booth was shot and killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Eight co-conspirators were tried for Lincoln's assassination and found guilty by a military commission. James A. Garfield
The previous evening, a man who wanted to be a hero for a lost cause had cowardly and callously shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 10 p.m.
Corbett testified in the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, testifying on May 17, 1865. [31] Corbett was largely considered a hero by the public and press. Initial newspaper reporters described him as a simple and humble man devoted, possibly excessively, to his faith; he had eccentricities but also did his duty well. [47]
Lincoln was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson. Booth was shot and killed on April 26, 1865, after he was found hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia. James Garfield, the 20th ...
In 1954, at the age of 94, Seymour gave his account of the assassination to the journalist Frances Spatz Leighton. [4]Seymour said that on April 14, 1865, when he was five years old, Sarah Cook, his nurse, along with his godmother Mrs. Goldsborough, who was the wife of his father's employer, took him to see Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., where they sat in the ...
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest turning points in American history, and the new Apple TV+ series “Manhunt” examines the behind-the-scenes drama of a wartime ...