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Assassination of President Lincoln, New York Herald, April 15, 1865Entry/Object ID
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Assassination of President Lincoln, 1865. Copy of The New York Herald,
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The President shot at the Theatre last evening. Secretary Seward daggered in his bed but not mortally wounded. Clarence and Frederick Seward badly hurt. Escape of the Assassins. Intense excitement in Washington, Scene at the deathbed of Mr. Lincoln. J. Wilkes Booth the actor, the alleged assassin of the President. The above were titles in the New York Herald Saturday April, 15, 1865.
The evening at about 9:30 P.M. at Ford's Theatre, The President, while sitting in his private box with Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Harris and Major Rathburn, was shot by an assassin, who suddenly entered the box and approached behind the President. The assassin then leaped upon the stage, banishing a large dagger or knife and made his escape in the rear of the theatre. This pistol ball entered the back of the President's head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insensible ever since it was inflicted and is now dying.
About the same hour an assassin entered Mr. Seward's apartments, and under pretense of having a prescription was shown to the Secretary's sick chamber. The assassin immediately rushed to the bed and inflicted two or three stabs on the throat and two on the face. It is hoped the wound may not be mortal. My apprehension is that they will prove fatal.
The nurse alarmed Mr. Fredrick Seward who was in the adjoining room and he hastened to the door of his father's room and when he met the assassin, who inflicted upon him one or more dangerous wounds. The recovery of Frederick is doubtful. It is not probable that the President will live through the night.Lexicon
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