The death bed scene after President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded in Ford’s Theater April 14, 1865, is shown in this rare picture. The picture shows Mrs. Lincoln kneeling beside the bed and members of the cabinet behind it. This picture was supposed to have been given to a friend by Mrs. Lincoln shortly after the funeral and then passed down through the family from generation to generation. (AP Photo)
This is the Deringer pistol that was recovered from the state box at the Ford Theater and used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. (AP Photo/FBI)
When Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, he was attending a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Pictured is Lincoln’s original theatre program, blemished by his fatal blood stains. (AP Photo)
Booth’s escape route after he shot the president ends at Richard Garrett’s farm in Virginia.
A letter written by President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is seen at Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers of Antiques and Fine Art in Boston, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004. The letter written by Booth before the 1865 slaying , sold at auction Sunday for a record price $68,000, according to Stuart Whitehurst, vice president of Skinner Inc. auctioneers. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Today, millions of people travel to Washington, D.C., to see the Lincoln Memorial to pay homage to President Abraham Lincoln.
These United States Presidents have been the targets of assassins. A deranged house painter tried to kill President Andrew Jackson in 1835. President Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth. President James Garfield was mortally wounded by a disgruntled job seeker. President William McKinley was killed by Leon Czolqosz, an anarchist factory worker. (AP Photo)
