Page 1; Investigation and Trial Papers Relating to the Assassination of President Lincoln

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• • Tuesday, May 16, 1865
• • I said, "He is John Wilkes Booth, and he has shote the President." I made that remark right there. That is the last ever I saw of him, when he was running across the stage.
  • The purpose of the meeting was, as I was informed afterwards, to send certain officers on detached service to Canada and the borders, and to deliver prisoners, to lay Northern cities in ashes, and, finally, to get after the members of the Cabinet and kill the President. That was the main purpose.
  • I heard the pistol shot, and the words "Sic Semper Tyranuis," and I knew from my school boy knowledge that was the motto of the State of Virginia
  • you are to be the Charlotte Corday of the nineteenth century.
  • The full Conspiracy of John Wilkes Booth & hist co-conspirators
• • Judge Usber
  • General Ulysses S. Grant
  • Jefferson Davis

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