1. The Lincoln Assassination
Picture: "The Assassination of President Lincoln - Currier and Ives 2" by Currier & Ives, This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b49830.

2. April 14th, 1865
While attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C., President Abraham Lincoln was shot
Picture: "The Assassination of President Lincoln - Currier and Ives 2" by Currier & Ives, This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b49830.

3. The Assassin John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Southerner
Booth thought assassinating Northern leaders might give the Confederacy a chance to get back in the war
Picture: "John Wilkes Booth-portrait" by Alexander Gardner - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca

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A friend of Lincoln’s, Major Henry Rathbone, struggled with Booth in the President’s box
Rathbone was stabbed, but would survive
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Booth jumped over a rail, broke his ankle, and shouted “Sic Semper Tyrannis” (Latin for thus always to tryants)
Audience wasn’t sure what had happened
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Booth then escaped backstage, got on a horse he had waiting, and quickly got out of Washington D.C.
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A doctor in the audience would rush to the presidential box to try to help Lincoln
He was carried across the street since his condition made travel too dangerous
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The following morning, April 15th, Lincoln passed away
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At about the same time Lincoln was shot, a friend of Booth’s, Lewis Paine (also went by Lewis Powell), tries to kill U.S. Secretary of State William Seward
Picture: "William Seward and Daughter Fanny" by Unknown - Carl Schurz, Reminiscences, Volume Two, McClure Publishing Co., 1907, facing p. 130; scanned by Bob Burkhardt. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
William Henry Seward with his daughter, Fanny

10. The Assassination Seward’s two sons and daughter fought off Paine
Seward is stabbed in the face, but survives
Paine Escapes
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One of Secretary of State William Henry Seward’s sons, Frederick, fighting off Lewis Paine

11. Co-conspirator George Atzerodt
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Another co-conspirator, George Atzerodt, was to kill U.S. Vice President Andrew Johnson
Instead he got scared and went to a saloon
Picture: Alexander Gardner [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Co-conspirator George Atzerodt

12. The Manhunt
The assassination would lead to the largest manhunt in U.S. history
Secretary of War Edwin Jackson, who had become a friend of Lincoln’s, would lead the effort to find Booth
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13. The Manhunt
Booth and his friend, David Herold, would remain on the run for 12 days
Would be surrounded in a barn in rural Virginia
Herold surrendered
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The Garrett farm in Virginia, where John Wilkes Booth would be surrounced

14. The Manhunt
A young soldier, Boston Corbett, would sneak up and shoot Booth in the back of the neck
Booth’s last words, “Useless, Useless”
The Manhunt
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Boston Corbett

15. The Aftermath
Four surviving co-conspirators, Paine, Atzerodt, Herold, and Mary Surrat, were hanged
Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president
Picture: "Execution Lincoln assassins" by Alexander Gardner - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb

16. "Booth escape route" by Derivative work for Wikipedia by en:User:JGHowes, author of SVG: Kuara - Image:Booth escape route.png, Image:Flag of Virginia.svg, Image:Flag of Maryland.svg. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -

17. The Aftermath Andrew Johnson’s presidency would not be successful
He was impeached, but escaped being removed from office by one vote in the Senate
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17th President Andrew Johnson

18. Lincoln’s funeral train
The Aftermath
Lincoln’s body would be returned to his hometown Springfield, IL on a funeral train, retracing the path he took to Washington D.C. when elected
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Lincoln’s funeral train

19. Further Discussion How will Lincoln’s assassination impact:
The nation’s ability to heal after the Civil War?
How freed slaves are treated?
His legacy?
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"President Abraham Lincoln Assassination." President Abraham Lincoln Assassination. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Sept <
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