On the night of his assassination Lincoln was accompanied by his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris. Soon after the play had begun a figure drew out a pistol, stepped into the presidential box, aimed, and fired. The president wilted forward. The assassin dropped the pistol and waved a dagger. Officer Rathbone lunged the assassin, forcing him to the railing. Booth leapt from the balcony and caught the spur of his left boot on a flag draped over the rail, and shattered a bone in his leg on

After President Abraham Lincoln passed away on the morning of April 15, 1865, his body was returned by hearse to the White House shortly after 9:00 A.M. Accompanied by an escort of cavalry, the solemn procession slowly moved up 10th Street to G Street and then to the White House. Lincoln’s temporary coffin was wrapped in an American Flag. His remains were transported to the Guest Room, which was on the second floor at the front right-hand corner of the building (northwest corner). Nine men were present for the autopsy. These included (1) Surgeon General Dr. Joseph K. Barnes, (2) Lincoln family physician, Dr. Robert King Stone, (3) Dr. Charles Sabin Taft, (4) Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Charles H. Crane, (5) Army Assistant Surgeon William Morrow Notson, (6) General Rucker of the Army's Quartermaster Department, (7) Lincoln's friend, Orville H. Browning, (8) Army Assistant Surgeon Joseph Janvier Woodward, and (9) Army Assistant Surgeon Edward Curtis. When the doctors had completed their autopsy, undertaker Dr. Charles D. Brown of Brown and Alexander began his work. With the help of an assistant named Harry P. Cattell, President. Lincoln's blood was drained through the jugular vein.

landing. Though injured, he rushed out the back door, and disappeared on horseback.

In the 1870's one of the nation's largest counterfeiting clusters was placed in central Illinois; this was also the group that would soon try and take President Lincolns body from his grave. Problems surfaced for the gang when Ben Boyd, the gang's master engraver, was imprisoned. Soon the groups supply of counterfeit money was almost gone. The gang needed an idea for freeing Ben Boyd. So "Big Jim" Kinealy, the crew's leader, hatched a plot to steal Abraham Lincoln's corpse. The sanctified corpse would be held as ransom until the government paid $200,000 in gold and freed Ben Boyd. One night in capital of Illinois, Springfield, one of Kinealy's conspirators drank too much and blurted out the entire plot to a woman. She told some others, and the story soon spread throughout the entire town. The gang of grave robbers fled the city as soon as possible the next morning.

However, even though that Lincoln had asked for Major Thomas T. Eckert as his bodyguard he was given John F. Parker. Parker was a member of Washington's Metropolitan Police

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