Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

Friday, April 14th, 1865• 7am to 2pm - Breakfast with family, met with

cabinet, visitors, invited Grants to theater, met with Vice-President

• 2pm - lunch with Mrs. Lincoln• 3pm to 8pm – met with former slave, various other

individuals including a one-armed soldier, carriage ride

• 8pm – arrived Ford’s theater late, actors paused for playing of ‘Hail to the Chief’, the play American Cousin resumed

Who were the other targets for assassination?

•

Where was the president when he was shot?

What happened?

What happened to President Lincoln after he was shot?

•

What happened to the other targets?

•

What happened to John Wilkes Booth?

Wanted Poster

What happened to those in the box?

What about the conspirators?

John Wilkes BoothLewis PowellDavid HeroldMichael O’LauglinJohn SurrattEdman SpanglerSamuel ArnoldGeorge AtzerodtMary Surrat

Not picturedDr. Samuel Mudd

Facts• 15 other people had turned down invitation to

the theater

• Andrew Johnson sworn in at 10 am April 15th

• 1st President to be assassinated

• Assassination took place on a Good Friday

• Mary Todd Lincoln did not attend funeral

• Died without a will

• Lincoln’s body was delivered with his son’s body on a train to Illinois to be buried together