The New York Times
EXTRA, EXTRA
PRESIDENT LINCOLN ASSASINATED!!!
Fords Theater
House of fun or house of doom?
Last night President Lincoln was shot! In the midst of the play " Our American Cousin" at the Ford's Thearer, owned by John D. Ford, the entire audience was shoked. What moments earlier had been a peaceful play turned into a deadly dealing. It was 10:07 p.m. when John Wilkes Booth entered the theater. Long before Wilkes even shot Lincoln he had made a plan to capture or kid-nap Lincoln, so I think you can say Wilkes was not to found of Lincoln. But overall Lincoln was very liked by his fellow citizens,o,k kets get back to the article. His plan is not to watch the play, but it is a plan of assassination. Lincoln was sitting in the presidential booth with Clara Harris and Major Henry Rathbone when the silence broke. Pain was upon the entire audienice. John Wilks Booth snuck up upon our great president and shot him at point blank right above the left ear with a 6-inch single-shot derringer pistol. The bullet lodged just behind Lincoln's right eye. Booth jumped down from the presidential box to the stage where he maked a mad dash to the door in his escape. A young army doctor, Dr. Charles Augustus Leale was the first to reach the box. He discovered that Lincoln's wound was fatal, and assisted in moving him to Peterson House where Lincoln died early the next morning. For the following 12 days posters were up offering $100,000 to anyone who turned in Booth, until the U.S. Military found him. On the dress coat that President Lincoln had worn that night that he died, were the embroidered words,"One country, one destiny". Prestident Lincoln was the one true father of our many states. He held on to our nation and he was the one that freed us from slavery. Truely President Lincoln was the start to a long lifetime for the United States of America.
Written by Robert Houghton and Laura Jackson
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