Lincoln
Assassination and Its Immediate Aftermath
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Playbill
for Performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre (4/14/1865)
Sketch
of Assassination
(Harper's
Weekly)
Sketch
of Booth Fleeing
(Harper's
Weekly)
Booth
Leaves Theatre on Horseback
Last
Photo of Lincoln
Presidential
Box at Ford's
Flag
(rediscovered in 2001)from Presidential Box
Bridge
Across "Eastern Branch" to Anacostia
(escape route)
Lincoln
Funeral Procession
Powell
Readies to Attack Frederick Seward
Sketch
of Powell's Attack on Secretary Seward
Home
of Mary Surratt
Surrattsville
War
Department Wanted Poster
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Members
of the Conspiracy & Their Arrests
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John
Wilkes Booth
Lewis
[Payne] Powell
David
Herold
Samuel
Arnold
Michael
O' Laughlen
John
Surratt
Edman
Spangler
Mary
Surratt
Dr.
Samuel Mudd
George
Atzerodt
Lewis
Powell (manacled)
Lewis
Powell (hooded)
Sketch
of Dr. Mudd and Mary Surratt
Sgt.
Boston Corbett
(man who shot
Booth)
Arrest
of Atzerodt
Scene
at Garrett's Farm
Uncle
Sam's Menagerie
(cartoon
showing conspirators as "Gallow's Birds')
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Trial
& Execution of the Assassination
Conspirators
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Sketch
of Counsel, Defendants & Commission Members
(Harper's
Weekly, 6/1865)
Exterior
of the Arsenal Building (scene of trial)
Military
Commission
Samuel
Arnold (hooded, awaiting arraignment)
Engraving
of trial, showing prisoners & Commission
Sketch
of Trial Scene
Courtroom
Interior
Defense
Attorney Captain William Doster
Prosecution
Witness Louis Weichmann
Hoods
Used in Cells
Atzerodt
in Cell on Day of Execution
Powell
in Cell on Day of Execution
Herold
in Cell on Day of Execution
Preparing
the Ropes for Hanging
Four
Convicted Conspirators Hanging
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