Jump To: A One Page Summary of the Lincoln Assassination Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories Lincoln Escapes Death in 1864 Abraham Lincoln's Pre-Assassination Dream Abraham Lincoln's Last Day Abraham Lincoln's Autopsy The Route of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train --- The Life and Plot of John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth's Movements on the Day of the Assassination John Wilkes Booth's Final Hours and the Positive Identification of his Body The Text of John Wilkes Booth's Diary John Wilkes Booth's Weapons John Wilkes Booth's Autopsy --- The 1865 Conspiracy Trial Did John Wilkes Booth and Other Conspirators Attend Lincoln's Second Inauguration? The Text of John Surratt's 1870 Lecture on the Conspiracy John F. Parker: The Guard Who Abandoned His Post A Booth Saves a Lincoln --- The Strange and Eerie Events in the Years Following the Assassination The 1876 Attempt to Steal Mr. Lincoln's Body Boston Corbett: The Bizarre Soldier Who Killed John Wilkes Booth Mr. Lincoln's Casket Opened and the Remains Viewed in 1901 --- Mary Todd Lincoln's Nightmare at Ford's Theatre What If the Lincolns Had Attended the Play at Grover's Theatre? The Fifteen People Who Turned Down the Lincolns' Theater Invitation Private John Millington's Eyewitness Account of the Chase and Capture of John Wilkes Booth George Atzerodt's Lost Confession --- Photographs Related to the Assassination Photographs of the Convicted Conspirators Adjusting the Ropes Prior to Hanging Hanging of Conspirators Box Where Lincoln was Assassinated Close-Up of Powell on the Gallows Ford's Theatre in 1865 Lincoln's Rocking Chair at Ford's Theatre Petersen House (where President Lincoln Died) --- Samuel Arnold George Atzerodt David Herold Dr. Samuel Mudd Michael O'Laughlen Lewis Powell Edman Spangler John Surratt Mary Surratt --- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATION SITE ABRAHAM LINCOLN RESEARCH SITE MARY TODD LINCOLN RESEARCH SITE

A Booth Saves a Lincoln! Robert Lincoln Edwin Booth Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's son, Robert, was once saved by John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin, from possible very serious injury or death. The incident happened at a railroad station in Jersey City in 1863 or 1864. Robert was traveling from New York to Washington. In 1909 Robert gave the following account of the rescue: The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name. It is possible that this act helped give Edwin Booth some comfort in the days and years that followed his brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. SOURCE: p. 70-71 of Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man In His Own Right by John S. Goff. Robert Lincoln Edwin Booth