At seven o'clock on the morning of April 14, 1865, President
Lincoln came out of his bedroom, nodded to the night guard, and
started down the hall to his office. At 7:22 the following morning
Surgeon General Barnes pressed silver coins to his eyelids.
The president's day was, as usual, crammed with meetings and
appointments, but he was probably no busier than John Wilkes Booth,
the man who would stand behind him at Ford's Theatre that evening.
Although the plan had been long in the making, the time and place
were not set until eleven that morning.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot chronicles the movements of these two
men minute by minute until the almost unbearable suspense is
shattered with a single gunshot and a leap to the stage. From a
thousand bits and scraps of information, Jim Bishop has fashioned
an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more
alive than any newspaper account.
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