Lincoln Assassination

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Before sentence carried out

After the sentence…….

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Dr. Samuel Mudd

Dr. Samuel Mudd was charged with conspiring with Booth and with aiding the semi-crippled assassin during his escape by sheltering him and setting his broken left leg.

Mudd was found guilty and sentenced to life.

However, he received a pardon from President Andrew Johnson in February of 1869.

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Sam Arnold

Arnold was charged with being part of Booth's earlier plot to kidnap President Lincoln.

He was found guilty and sentenced to life.

Like Dr. Mudd, he was pardoned by Andrew Johnson early in 1869. He lived until 1906.

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Michael O'Laughlen

Like Arnold, O'Laughlen was charged with conspiracy to kidnap the president.

He was found guilty and sentenced to life.

He died of yellow fever in prison at Ft. Jefferson on September 23, 1867.

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Edman "Ned" Spangler

Spangler was charged with helping Booth escape from Ford's Theatre immediately after the assassination.

Spangler was found guilty and sentenced to 6 years.

He was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869.

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Lincoln’s Funeral Procession

Lincoln lying in state in the White House

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The Funeral Procession

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington on April 21, 1865.

It would essentially retrace the 1,654 mile route Mr. Lincoln had traveled as President-elect in 1861

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Procession Route

Lincoln's body was carried by train in a grand funeral procession through several states on its way back to Illinois.

He was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, where a 177-foot-tall granite tomb surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln.

The following slide is a map of the route.

Springfield, Illinois

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