Archive for 'Ford’s Theatre' Category
Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd was the physician who treated assassin John Wilkes Booth’s broken left leg after Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Booth had broken his leg when he leapt onto the stage from the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre after shooting Lincoln in the back of his head. Booth then fled on horseback.
John Wilkes Booth, The Actor’s Final Curtain…The Assassin’s Death
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Early the morning of April 26, John Wilkes Booth is nearing his fate. Booth and David Herold (an accomplice in the assassination) are hiding in a tobacco barn owned by Richard H. Garrett near Bowling Green, Virginia. Federal troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger surround the tobacco barn and Conger orders the suspects to come out and surrender. David Herold gives up and is quickly taken into custody.