This week’s OTD tweets cover the 157th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination. As such there are a lot of extra tweets in the Bonus section. As a result, it may take longer than normal for this post to fully load.
Taking inspiration from one of my favorite books, John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day by Art Loux, I’m documenting a different Lincoln assassination or Booth family event each day on my Twitter account. In addition to my daily #OTD (On This Day) tweets, each Sunday I’ll be posting them here for the past week. If you click on any of the pictures in the tweet, it will take you to its individual tweet page on Twitter where you can click to make the images larger and easier to see. Since Twitter limits the number of characters you can type in a tweet, I often include text boxes as pictures to provide more information. I hope you enjoy reading about the different events that happened over the last week.
NOTE: After weeks of creating posts with multiple embedded tweets, this site’s homepage now tends to crash from trying to load all the different posts with all the different tweets at once. So, to help fix this, I’ve made it so that those viewing this post on the main page have to click the “Continue Reading” button below to load the full post with tweets. Even after you open the post in a separate page, it may still take awhile for the tweets to load completely. Using the Chrome browser seems to be the best way to view the tweets, but may still take a second to switch from just text to the whole tweet with pictures.
April 11
#OTD Apr. 11, 1865: #Lincoln gave a speech from the White House advocating Black suffrage. #JohnWilkesBooth was there & though stories of explicit racist language from him exist, the evidence he said this is poor. JWB likely did say, “That is the last speech he will ever make.” pic.twitter.com/ToXfXTWsPO
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 11, 2022
In 1867, during the impeachment investigation of Andrew Johnson, Major Thomas Eckert, assistant Secretary of War, testified about his conversations with #LewisPowell in 1865. Eckert claimed Powell was with JWB at the speech & that Powell told him that JWB had said that. pic.twitter.com/ZP1Z1amDko
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 11, 2022
April 12
#OTD Apr. 12, 1865: #JohnSurratt arrived in Elmira, New York to gain intel on a camp of Confederate prisoners of war for a proposed jail break. Surratt was still in Elmira when Lincoln’s assassination occurred & he escaped to Canada due to his connections to #JohnWilkesBooth. pic.twitter.com/Sv0PFUhfD8
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
April 13
#OTD Apr. 13, 1865: #JohnWilkesBooth visited @fordstheatre & Grover’s @BroadwayNatDC, learning that both theaters planned to invite #Lincoln the next day. As D.C. celebrated the end of the war with a Grand Illumination, JWB betrayed nothing of his plans in a letter to his mother: pic.twitter.com/a6PdPVmM3c
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 13, 2022
April 14
#OTD April 14, 1860: #JohnWilkesBooth applied to be paid for his two weeks as a Richmond Gray guarding John Brown before the abolitionist’s execution. He received $64.58 in pay. I, for one, see a possible resemblance to JWB in this picture of the Grays during their duty. pic.twitter.com/Fti28a2m0R
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
What do you mean something more significant happened #OTD? 😉
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
.@DiceJailJen, @rebecca_fachner, & @KevinBrigger helped me remember the big significance of today. #OTD in 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg. In the 1997 movie Titanic, old Rose is played by Gloria Stuart who, in 1936 played #DrMudd’s wife in The Prisoner of Shark Island. #NailedIt pic.twitter.com/sGKeOuZ4Pj
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
PSA (for no particular reason): It’s spelled “Ford’s Theatre” not “Ford’s Theater”. pic.twitter.com/MVMqigCKqO
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
April 15
#OTD Apr. 15, 1865: 20 yr old Lt. John J. Toffey captured a galloping, riderless horse. It was the one eyed horse #JohnWilkesBooth bought from #DrMudd’s neighbor & was used by #LewisPowell on 4/14. Toffey had just come from @fordstheatre where he witnessed Lincoln’s assassination pic.twitter.com/GdVSSalUjq
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 15, 2022
If Edwin Stanton said anything at the moment of Lincoln’s death #OTD in 1865, the evidence supports “Now He Belongs to the Ages” more than “Angels” https://t.co/rduePU2piU
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 15, 2022
Experience the Morning of April 15, 1865 at Dr. Mudd’s House! https://t.co/NuZ772iKnj
— Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Society (@DrMuddHouse) April 15, 2022
#Nowin1865 pic.twitter.com/MO6tIEAlkw
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 15, 2022
UPDATE: He left. pic.twitter.com/MEJB0SGPML
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 15, 2022
April 16
#OTD Apr. 16, 1865: #JohnWilkesBooth & #DavidHerold left the home of Samuel Cox & secreted themselves in a nearby pine thicket. They would remain hidden there for 4.5 days. A few years ago, I reenacted (on camera) what this period of JWB’s escape was like: https://t.co/sW3RZuK4jt pic.twitter.com/ctrjjSHbZS
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 16, 2022
Do you know the story of Rich Hill? John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, stopped at Rich Hill in 1865 for food + shelter after leaving the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Booth was given a meal by the owner, Samuel Cox, who aided in hiding the fugitive in a nearby pine thicket pic.twitter.com/vcIVtALK82
— Explore Charles County (@ExploreCharlesC) February 2, 2020
April 17
#OTD Apr. 17, 1865:#SamuelArnold was taken into custody at Fortress Monroe, VA#MichaelOLaughlen surrendered himself in Baltimore#EdmanSpangler was arrested in D.C. As #MarySurratt was being taken in for questioning, #LewisPowell showed up posing as a laborer & was arrested too pic.twitter.com/Pc753sT6tz
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 17, 2022
Also #OTD Apr. 17, 1865: A photographer from Mathew Brady’s studio arrived at @fordstheatre to photograph the scene of Lincoln’s assassination. The stage and Presidential box were reset to their appearance 3 days earlier, & multiple photos were taken. pic.twitter.com/nINEUCpmVM
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 17, 2022
Bonus
April 14, 2022 was the 157th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination. As such there were a lot of tweets leading up to and in the days following the anniversary. This week’s Bonus section is quite full to say the least.
Reminder: @SewardHouse’s program “Pursuing #LewisPowell” with @FordsTheatreNPS & @TheHuntington showing their artifacts starts in a half hour here: https://t.co/vtCLXUTSWP pic.twitter.com/cDyTXlFmXi
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Featured behind Jeff Ludwig of the @SewardHouse Museum is a piece of bedsheet stained with William Seward’s blood from #LewisPowell’s attack on April 14, 1865. pic.twitter.com/Xjje6om1ic
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
.@FordsTheatreNPS Ranger Chip Dewell shows an image of the pick ax #LewisPowell carried when he showed up at #MarySurratt’s boardinghouse a couple days after his attack in Seward. pic.twitter.com/E96vaSqjcR
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Ranger Dewell points out how young #LewisPowell was. He was only 20 when he attacked Seward. pic.twitter.com/aZ6T9qxS44
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Jeff relates that when William Seward later met the Pope, his holiness took Seward’s scarred face in his hands and related it was a miracle that he survived his attack in 1865. pic.twitter.com/ltzpkpKjbw
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Jeff provides a peek at a part of the display at the @SewardHouse regarding #LewisPowell’s attack. pic.twitter.com/TpRebBLO7S
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Jeff related that Seward was a big theater fan and that prior to the assassination he invited #EdwinBooth to dinner much to the delight of his daughter Fanny. pic.twitter.com/2XwHtiw0fM
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Olga Salina of the @TheHuntington in California is describing the history of their impressive Civil War & Lincoln archive. Short story, Mr. Huntington had a lot of money and bought a lot of mini Lincoln collections. pic.twitter.com/MYWy7FpILL
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
.@TheHuntington contains the papers of George F. Robinson who was the army nurse who protected Seward against #LewisPowell’s attack. They were donated by descendants in the 1980s.
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Contained in Robinson’s papers is the knife that #LewisPowell used when he attacked Seward. Robinson had requested and was then given knife after the trial of the conspirators was over & Powell assassinated. pic.twitter.com/i4wIoUfkNG
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
.@TheHuntington also has the sheath for the knife #LewisPowell used. pic.twitter.com/0ssf5Yumwl
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Olga references that collector Dr. John Lattimer also had a knife that he believed was #LewisPowell’s knife but that the Robinson provenance proved his to be a fake. pic.twitter.com/NEQoZ39Wh5
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Olga mentioned that among the Robinson papers is a letter from Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt to Robinson where he wrote that Robinson’s “actions are now a matter of history.” Robinson was also granted a gold medal for his bravery defending Seward. pic.twitter.com/Hf7CNWuB4E
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
For those of you who missed @SewardHouse’s presentation “Pursuing Powell” it looks like the full video is up on their Facebook page. Don’t miss the show and tell of #LewisPowell’s knife from Olga Tsapina of @TheHuntington at the 45 min mark & onwards: https://t.co/vtCLXUTSWP
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 12, 2022
Return of “Use all Efforts to Secure Him” walking tour! April 23, 2022 @ 1 pm https://t.co/rP4NDtqyFz
— Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Society (@DrMuddHouse) April 13, 2022
April 14th:
Okay okay. Time to retweet a bunch of stuff. You’ve been warned.
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
While visiting Ford's Theatre before noon to pick up his mail, John Wilkes Booth learned that President Lincoln would be attending that night's performance. He set off to gather his conspirators & supplies, setting the assassination plot in motion. pic.twitter.com/ZIGlatnpWr
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 14, 2022
Stopping on the way to pick up their guests, the Lincolns arrived late at Ford's Theatre, pulling up front in this carriage. The audience cheered for them as they made their way to the box and settled into their seats. pic.twitter.com/rHHaeYzUdv
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
“Suddenly there was a cheering welcome, the acting ceased temporarily out of respect to the entering Presidential party…I saw in the aisle a few feet behind me, President Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln, Major Rathbone and Miss Harris.” – Dr. Charles Leale pic.twitter.com/aEnePXSOZu
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Having dispatched his followers to carry out plans to kill Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward, Booth leaves his horse in an alley behind Ford’s Theatre and sneaks around to the Star Saloon. He sits in the bar, drinking and waiting. pic.twitter.com/r8Sq9TY6Jo
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
George Atzerodt, a conspirator assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson that night, waits uneasily at the Kirkwood Hotel. He drinks heavily while deciding what to do. Will he shoot the Vice President? In the end… No. He abandons the plan and leaves. pic.twitter.com/5LBkKWySSq
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
John Wilkes Booth reentered Ford’s Theatre and made his way to the president’s box. A famous actor, he easily gained entry. Hiding in the small hallway leading to the box, Booth wedges the door shut behind him with a wooden rod and waits for a joke & a laugh to cover his attack. pic.twitter.com/ldi2WvUfT5
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Laughing and enjoying the play, President Lincoln holds his wife's hand. Mary jokes, “What will Miss Harris think of my hanging on to you so?” He squeezed her hand and said, "“She won’t think anything about it.” Those were Abraham Lincoln's final words. pic.twitter.com/fO4s51cVKF
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Booth stepped into the President's box, raised his Deringer and fired it into the back of Lincoln's head. The bullet passed through his brain and stopped near the front of his skull. pic.twitter.com/kjMe80fIN7
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
After guiding the nation through a perilous four-year war, passing the 13th Amendment to end slavery, and winning two presidential elections, #AbrahamLincoln was shot at #FordsTheater #OnThisDay in 1865. He would die early the next morning. pic.twitter.com/nqtpWqNO8o
— Lincoln Presidential Library (@ALPLM) April 14, 2022
Today in 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. The popular 26-year-old actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer and white supremacist had been plotting for months to abduct Lincoln and give the Confederacy another chance. Learn more at https://t.co/sUiMwnhf3s pic.twitter.com/xP2hXA3T0A
— Ford's Theatre (@fordstheatre) April 14, 2022
Alerted by the shot, Major Rathbone turns to confront Booth. Booth drops the pistol and pulls his knife, slashing into Rathbone's arm. Leaping from the box to the stage below, Booth stumbles, shouts at the crowd and escapes out the back. pic.twitter.com/YqJ6Zh3tl0
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
"The report of a pistol was heard, and a short time after I saw a man in mid-air leaping from the President's box…Then followed cries that the President had been murdered, interspersed with cries of ‘Kill the murderer!'" – Dr. Charles Leale pic.twitter.com/0fS5Ta7ezO
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
The sound of a gunshot halted the scripted action on stage. The crowd's eyes turned toward the presidential box. A scuffle. The First Lady screamed. A man jumped from the box and landed awkwardly on the stage. He waved a bloody knife as he said something. Then he was gone. #OTD pic.twitter.com/3o6cduyzcq
— Samuel Wheeler (@spwheeler) April 14, 2022
#OnThisDay in 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre. This print (FIC2013.00801) shows the box where John Wilkes Booth shot the 16th president. #VMHC #VMHCEducation #OTD #DigitalHistory #MuseumCollection #MuseumArchive #CivilWar #CivilWarHistory @fordstheatre pic.twitter.com/DiuGbOk0er
— VMHC Education (@VMHCeducation) April 14, 2022
Dr. Charles Leale enters the President's box to render aid, finding Mary cradling Lincoln's head and sobbing. Dr. Leale quickly examines the President, discovers the bullet hole, and pronounces the wound mortal. Lincoln continues breathing, but no one can guess for how long. pic.twitter.com/KkWbgEH6ML
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
#OTD in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theatre.
A few blocks away in Lafayette Square, Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in his home. pic.twitter.com/zf3rvHsepZ
— Seward House Museum (@SewardHouse) April 14, 2022
Seward was injured in the attack, but ultimately would make a full recovery and continue to work in the State Department under Andrew Johnson.
— Seward House Museum (@SewardHouse) April 14, 2022
📸 “Seward’s Washington bedroom,” which contains artifacts pertaining to that night - including a piece of his bloody bedsheet! pic.twitter.com/LXfSZBPrUf
At approximately the same time as Booth's attack, on orders from Booth, Lewis Powell attempted to kill Secretary of State William Seward in his home. Several people are wounded and severely injured, but all survive. Powell escaped. pic.twitter.com/xYWpOVLt9t
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Not wanting the President to die in a theatre, a group of men carry him down the stairs and out into the street. The White House is too far away. Standing in the mud and chaos, they look around for a place to take Lincoln.
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
“I saw a man standing at the door of Mr. Petersen's house…holding a lighted candle in his hand and beckoning us to enter. This we did, not having been interrupted in the slightest by the throngs in the street.” – Dr. Charles Leale pic.twitter.com/Fcsb4oXVPQ
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Carl Bersch was sitting on a balcony sketching a torchlight parade when he saw soldiers carry Pres. Lincoln from Ford’s into the Petersen House. Later in 1865, he painted a fanciful version of what he saw. The painting is on display at our museum. Watch: https://t.co/b2HifJRrzs pic.twitter.com/9jxHzGl7Lf
— Ford's Theatre (@fordstheatre) April 15, 2022
Laying Lincoln diagonally across a bed in the Peterson House, Dr. Leale, Mary, and others begin a vigil without hope. Robert, members of the Cabinet, friends, and dignitaries arrive through the night. Together, they wait for the end. pic.twitter.com/Nm9c60D4sa
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
For the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, here's a piece I wrote a long time ago on why he probably liked the play he was watching, "Our American Cousin," and likely spent his final moments laughing:https://t.co/cLRtmoumCM
— Christian McWhirter (@CLMcWhirter) April 14, 2022
Harry Hawk was on stage at Ford's Theatre playing the lead role in "Our American Cousin" when the gunshot rang out. His voice was probably the last Lincoln heard.
He gave this statement to investigators just after the event. He was the first to identify the assassin. pic.twitter.com/1oWd9mVd5j— Samuel Wheeler (@spwheeler) April 14, 2022
#OTD in 1865, President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. #DYK there’s a still-standing landmark house in #GreenwichVillage where the assassination was plotted and could have been averted? Get the whole fascinating story: https://t.co/EryLzCssQ8 pic.twitter.com/GCfwgylyeV
— Village Preservation (GVSHP) (@GVSHP) April 14, 2022
#OnThisDay in 1865, first-ever presidential assassination took place when John Wilkes Booth shot Pres. Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre (@FordsTheatreNPS). Lincoln died about 9 hours later. Sixteen years later, in 1881, Pres. James A. Garfield became 2nd assassinated president. pic.twitter.com/L404DlvbpG
— James A. Garfield National Historic Site (@GarfieldNPS) April 14, 2022
"My heart is so broken with our great national loss that I can hardly think to write or speak…Nothing is in the heart of anyone but our great sorrow…I am sick at heart & feel it to be almost like sacrilege to talk of money or business now." ~JAG to wife Lucretia, 4/17/1865. pic.twitter.com/QTi1u3EDAu
— James A. Garfield National Historic Site (@GarfieldNPS) April 14, 2022
President Lincoln was sitting in this Ford’s Theatre rocking chair when he was shot, 157 years ago tonight. It’s on permanent display at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. https://t.co/eXNpPBXdvc pic.twitter.com/2vqsymqhBZ
— Presidential Trivia (@triviapotus) April 14, 2022
One of the coolest things I got to do as a baby researcher was hold the knife #JohnWilkesBooth used to stab Maj Rathbone after shooting Lincoln. It is in storage at the @NatlParkService’s Museum Resource Center in Landover, MD. An incorrect knife is on display at @fordstheatre. pic.twitter.com/lJLbnIVsUt
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) April 14, 2022
Reference:
Thread: Last year I published an article I wrote years ago regarding the knife #JohnWilkesBooth used to stab Major Rathbone and my belief that @fordstheatre has the wrong knife on display. Today, Ford’s published a piece on their blog about their own investigation. /1 https://t.co/zVnOZy7JC4
— Dave Taylor (@LinConspirators) May 30, 2019
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated #OnThisDay in 1865 while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in D.C. He was taken to a house across the street and died the next morning. Check out these cartes de visite created shortly after: https://t.co/vKkwTuS0yb pic.twitter.com/fCPw3OOpPh
— Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (@illinoisIHLC) April 14, 2022
US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on this day, April 14, in 1865. 12 days later, Edward P. Doherty, the son of Irish immigrants, helped capture John Wilkes Booth.https://t.co/jQzURTMfHn
— IrishCentral (@IrishCentral) April 14, 2022
On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. Read more about it in #ChronAm.https://t.co/WLfzVzYnVi #OTD pic.twitter.com/qmt7svGpuA
— Chronicling America Historic Newspapers (@ChronAmLOC) April 14, 2022
On this day 157 years ago Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater. Within days after the shooting, the War Department issued wanted posters for the arrest of John Wilkes Booth. From the @librarycongress collection: https://t.co/xPiFUUy5Zf pic.twitter.com/mGlY3i0ffH
— Carla Hayden (@LibnOfCongress) April 14, 2022
#OTD in 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater. In this episode from the vault of our @goodreasonradio show, Terry Alford (@novacommcollege) tells us about the long-standing plot Booth was part of to kidnap Lincoln. https://t.co/nmOV9PFnVN
— Virginia Humanities (@VAHumanities) April 14, 2022
Front page of the Penny Illustrated Paper, London, May 6, 1865 depicting the #LincolnAssassination @fordstheatre. Newspaper in my personal collection.#JohnWilkesBooth #presidentlincoln #fordstheatre #AbrahamLincoln pic.twitter.com/JmT9T3Ay8r
— SpiritsOfTudorHall (@SpiritsTH) April 15, 2022
The French take on the #LincolnAssassination. Le Journal illustré newspaper, May 1865. @fordstheatre #johnwilkesbooth #fordstheatre #presidentlincoln #abrahamlincoln #vintagenewspaper
*newspaper in my personal collection pic.twitter.com/cCwo3IfkT6
— SpiritsOfTudorHall (@SpiritsTH) April 15, 2022
Over the course of the night, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton assumed control of the investigation and manhunt. Several witnesses confirmed that the assassin was the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. Detectives, police, and the military mobilized to find the conspirators. pic.twitter.com/8964p1J0ED
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
Dr. Charles A. Leale was just 23 years old in April 1865. He was the surgeon in charge of the wounded commissioned officers’ ward at the U. S. Army General Hospital in Washington. He also was one of the faces in the crowd as Lincoln delivered his final public address on April 11. pic.twitter.com/0bBiBBFkEt
— Samuel Wheeler (@spwheeler) April 15, 2022
At 7:22 am, President Abraham Lincoln died. “The utmost silence pervaded, broken only by the sounds of strong men's tears…The President breathed heavily until a few minutes before he breathed his last, then his breath came easily, and he passed off very quietly.” – James Tanner pic.twitter.com/E6ElYfFgHG
— Ford's Theatre NPS (@FordsTheatreNPS) April 15, 2022
President #AbrahamLincoln died #OnThisDay in 1865. He was 56. pic.twitter.com/Gq9rsXsTtG
— Lincoln Presidential Library (@ALPLM) April 15, 2022
At 7:22am on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln passed away following the previous evening's assassination attempt by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's body was moved from the Peterson House to the White House the same day, where an autopsy took place and this locket of hair was cut. pic.twitter.com/B0MKLJx6z7
— Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum (@the_allm) April 15, 2022
#OnThisDay in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died, but if John Wilkes Booth’s plot had been entirely successful a little-known senator may have been thrust into the White House.
Read #ConstitutionDaily for more.https://t.co/CvmnKBedma
— National Constitution Center (@ConstitutionCtr) April 15, 2022
When John Wilkes Booth knocked on Dr. Samuel Mudd's front door, he knew he had a friend who would help him assassinate the president. https://t.co/Hh7kCPLesa
— Civil War Times Magazine (@CivilWarTimes) April 15, 2022
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