The Assassination of President Lincoln

On April 14, 1863, President and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Washington's Ford's Theater. As the Lincolns and their guests, Major Rathbone and his fiancee Clara Harris, watched the play John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot the president in the head.

I thought I would share some resources on the assassination to help you cover this important topic in our history.

The Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html

The Ford's Theater National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/index2.htm

Photos related to the assassination:
http://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/lincoln_assassination.htm

Read about the trail of the conspirators at:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnconspiracy.html

On of my favorite books on this is:
American Brutus by Michael Kaufman