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Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Chapter 4

- Abraham Lincoln

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years.”

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than

to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

Communication Newspapers,

postcards, telegraph

messages, mail

couriers, messenger

pigeons, and letters

were all forms of

communication

used in the 1860’s.

People were able to

share news by using

any of these

sources.

Mastermind –

John Wilkes

Booth

shot Lincoln

Lewis Powell –

Seward House

Attacker

George Atzerodt –

Vice- President

Johnson

David Herold –

Seward House

Accomplice

Mary Surratt – Delivered package to

tavern and instructed to

get guns/supplies ready

for pick up

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and

found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the

diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of

coagulated blood. (p. 68)

– to change or cause to change from a liquid to a

thickened mass

coagulate

manipulate To draw life-sustaining oxygen into the lungs, Leale

pressed Lincoln’s chest and ordered two men to

manipulate Lincoln’s arms like levers on a water

pump. (p. 68)

– to operate with the hands, especially in a skillful way

This is an antique water pump.

Leale told the men to basically lift

Lincoln’s arm the way they would

lift up and push down the long

lever on the water pump. Do you

see the lever on this pump?

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Other great actresses from the nineteenth-century

American theater have faded into oblivion while

Laura Keene is remembered for a single unscripted

act that took place over a few minutes in the box at

Ford’s on April 14, 1865. (p. 73)

oblivion

– a state of being forgotten

Laura Keene was an actress

in Our American Cousin.

She has not faded into

oblivion.

Even the brief carriage ride between Ford’s and the

White House over unpaved, muddy streets, gouged with ruts and tracks from hundreds of carriage wheels,

would be too much for Lincoln to endure. (p. 73)

gouged

– to cut or dig out

causing a groove or hole

Gouged wheel ruts.

Do you see the

ridges in the mud?

Ford’s Theater

Booth escaping Ford’s Theater – chased by only Army

Major Joseph Stewart.

East on F Street past Herndon House

Past Patent Office on left and Post Office on right

Then onto Pennsylvania Ave

Through Capital Grounds and

To Navy Yard Bridge to Maryland

Booth’s

Escape

Route

William Seward

Lewis Powell

Seward House

Ford’s Theater US Army

Surgeon

Charles

Leale

A national treasure for all Americans, Ford's Theater is a 19th century structure

located on 10th street in Washington, D. C.. It is a living tribute to President Abraham

Lincoln’s love of the performing arts.

The building was founded in 1833 as the First Baptist Church of Washington. In 1861,

the congregation leased it to John T. Ford, an extremely successful theatrical

entrepreneur from Baltimore.

He converted the church into a music hall called “Ford's Athenaeum." But, a fire

destroyed the building in 1862.

It was reconstructed in the following year as "Ford's New Theater." The first

performance in the new venue took place on August 27, 1863.

Kirkwood House

George

Atzerodt

Vice-President

Andrew Johnson

The Kirkwood House, once named the

Fuller Hotel, was built in 1847. It was the

home of Andrew Johnson. After

Lincoln’s assassination, Johnson took

the Presidential Oath of Office in Aoril,

1865 at the Kirkwood House.

Laura Keene’s

blood stained

dress

Ford’s Theater

John Wilkes

Booth

Ford’s Theater

Lincoln being carried lifeless to

Peterson House

The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house located

at 516 10th Street NW in Washington, D.C. On April 15, 1865, United

States President Abraham Lincoln died here after being shot the

previous evening at Ford's Theater, which was located across the

street. The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a German

tailor, which Is how the house got its name.