Boston Corbett with Lt. Colonel Edward Doherty
Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard who was absent the night of the assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865
Assassinations
Henry Rathbone who was sitting next to president during assassination and was seriously wounded by Booth fleeing the theater
Lincoln funeral scene in Cleveland center
Edwin Stanton
Edwin Stanton who organized manhunt for Lincoln's killer
Lincoln's chair in Ford Theater
Edwin Stanton
Photography Book
Boston Corbett
Dr. Samuel Mudd - sets Booth's Leg
Boston Corbett who shot Booth
John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865
John Wilkes Booth
Ms. Fanny Brown (1837-1891)
Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield
Booth conspirators
NY Herald article announcing the death of the president
Hers was one of five photos of women found in the diary of John Wilkes Booth after his death. The first four of “Booth’s ladies” were easily identified as Alice Grey, Lucy Hale, Helen Western and Effie Germon. The fifth was simply titled “The Mysterious Beauty” until finally recognized as Fanny Brown, a young actress who appeared in plays with Booth going back to 1863. She was born in 1837 in Ohio and made her stage debut at six as Shakespeare’s Puck and later played Eva in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.