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Category: John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln Assassination   --- See latest Civil War news here

Ford's Theatre renovation: Lincoln's bloodstained clothes packed up
The goatskin boots that Abraham Lincoln had on that night at Ford's Theatre were worn down at the heels. His long black frock coat was unadorned. Its buttons were of plain gray metal. And most of what he wore in the private box on Good Friday of 1865 comes down to us still stained with his blood. Under police escort the National Park Service transported the assassinated president's clothing and items from the Ford's Theatre museum to a Park Service storage center in Maryland. One by one, Civil War expert Gloria Swift opened the acid-free boxes in which she and others had packed the clothes Lincoln was wearing when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
by washingtonpost :: 2007-09-10 :: Abraham Lincoln

Story disputes history books' account of President Lincoln's killer
Historical accounts state that Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was shot to death on April 26, 1865, when he was found hiding out at a farm. But John Henry Stevenson, who claimed to have known Booth since childhood, died believing he lived much longer. He dictated autobiography, which is believed to be authentic by some historians. He wrote that his 1867 'death' was staged after W.G. Pollack, who arranged for his release from prison. Stevenson said Pollack facilitated the release because Stevenson knew Booth's wife Izola Booth was in possession of a fortune. "Pollack said that if I would help him get the gold, that he would see that I got out of prison."
by muscatinejournal :: 2007-04-15 :: John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln Assassination

Hanged for conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln
Almost a century and a half ago, on July 7, 1865, Lewis Paine, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt were hanged on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal. They had been sentenced to death by a military commission for conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln. (The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, had been killed by a Union soldier while trying to escape.) Thousands wished to witness the execution. Tickets were issued to about 1,000 people. Alexander Gardner was the only photographer present at the execution. He took a series of pictures; the first shows the empty scaffold and the last shows the four lifeless bodies hanging in midair.
by latimes :: 2007-01-10 :: John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln Assassination

New light on death of Lincoln and life of Booth
He is perhaps the most glittering villain in American history. When actor John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, it was almost as if a modern president had been murdered by a major celebrity. In "American Brutus," Michael W. Kauffman challenges much of what is the conventional knowledge about Booth and America's first presidential assassination, including how Booth broke his leg; the guilt of Samuel Mudd, who set his leg, and Mary Surratt, in whose boarding house the conspirators met; the role of John Parker, the police officer accused of leaving the presidential box unguarded; and the missing pages in the assassin's diary.
by jso :: 2006-09-09 :: John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln Assassination

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