Title: John Matthews Description: John Matthews , a member of the cast of Our American Cousin, the play Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865), was watching in Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., when he was shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) on April 14, 1865; Booth had given Matthews a letter to mail to the editor of the Washington Daily Intelligencer explaining his plan to assassinate Lincoln; Booth asked Matthews to mail the letter the day after he would shoot the president, but instead Matthews burned it and kept it secret for two years; after the shooting, Matthews ran to his boarding house with the knowledge that Booth was the murderer; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, Ford's Theatre, presidents of the U.S., U.S. Presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1275 x 1591 (2.03 MPixels) (1.25) Print Size: 10.8 x 13.5 cm; 4.3 x 5.3 inches File Size: 5.83 MB (6,114,224 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530825 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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