What Booth Said After He Killed Lincoln
What Booth Said After He Killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth certainly saw himself as a dramatic figure in history. Upon shooting Lincoln, he jumped onto the stage and condemned his victim in Latin.
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John Wilkes Booth certainly saw himself as a dramatic figure in history. Upon shooting Lincoln, he jumped onto the stage and condemned his victim in Latin.
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00:00The Lincolns and their guests arrive at Ford's in high spirits.
00:07The crowd applauds the President. They stop the play. They sit down and the play begins.
00:24The President comes to their barking up the wrong tree about the oak.
00:34About ten minutes after ten Booth began to mount the stairs leading up to the second tier of boxes where you would find President Lincoln.
00:48As Booth makes his way toward the presidential box, he is seen, but no one stops him.
00:55He was well known to everyone, a popular actor of course, and that let Booth get right behind Lincoln.
01:07Booth is in position at Ford's.
01:11Booth comes into the box right as the whole theater bursts into laughter.
01:19As the crowd roars with laughter, Booth takes aim.
01:26So that moment where the whole future looked like it finally lifted, the clouds had separated, comes crashing down.
01:41The bullet enters the back of Lincoln's head.
01:45Booth stepped up to him, fired a shot from perhaps three, four inches, not right against Lincoln's head, but close,
01:51and it hit Lincoln in the back of the head like a sledgehammer would.
01:56This is the derringer that Booth used on April 14. It's about six inches long, weighs about eight ounces.
02:05A part of the Ford's theater collection, this instrument of history was Booth's personal weapon.
02:12Booth probably had this weapon for at least five or six years before the assassination took place.
02:18It fires a single bullet, so this is like we say, one and done.
02:25Booth dropped the pistol, went to the front of the box intending to escape.
02:29Major Rathbone jumped from his seat, he grabbed Booth from behind and pulled him back from the railing.
02:35Booth twisted around in the major's grip, and for the first time the men were face to face.
02:40And Rathbone later said he was absolutely horrified by the look on Booth's face.
02:44And Booth was stronger than Rathbone was, so he was able to free himself and slash Rathbone with a knife.
02:56Booth leaps from the box to the stage.
03:00Sic simpateratus!
03:02And makes his escape.