John Wilkes Booth leaping to the stage, Ford's Theater, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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John Wilkes Booth leaping to the stage, Ford's Theater, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865, artist's impression, detail
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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 22, 2013.
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engraving
Original caption
Assassination of President Lincoln - The murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the President's box. - From a sketch by our Special Artist, Albert Berghaus.
Source citation
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 6, 1865, 097.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here. 
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