Dr. Charles Leale

(AP) The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was
shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found
him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles
Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately. The
Army surgeon had been seated 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater that night in April 1865. 

Dr. Leale, who was 23 and just six weeks into his medical practice when
Lincoln died, never spoke or wrote about his experiences again until
1909 in a speech commemorating the centennial of the president’s
birth. 

Leale’s long-lost report of efforts to help the mortally wounded president, 
written just hours after his death, was discovered late last month by
researchers in a box among correspondence of the U.S. surgeon
general at the National Archives.

Drawing of Lincoln’s Death Bed

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)

Robert F. Kennedy speaks to campaign workers at the Ambassador
Hotel minutes before being shot.

Following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on Thursday,
June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot by
Sirhan Sirhan. Mortally wounded, he survived for nearly 26 hours, dying
early in the morning of June 6.

Senator Kennedy lies wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel, 
after being shot by his assailant.  Kennedy’s wife Ethel is shown at 
lower left.

Recent mug shot of Sirhan

   
             Bonnie Elizabeth Parker                       Clyde Chestnut Barrow   
           (Oct. 1, 1910-May 23, 1934)                 (Mar. 24, 1909-May 23, 1934) 
                            

The well-known criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow traveled the Central  
U.S.with their gang the “Barrow Gang” during the Great Depression. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. The couple themselves were eventually ambushed and killed on a rural
road in Louisiana by law officers. Their exploits became a major part of American
pop folklore with the1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye
Dunaway.

The the ambush site was located on a desolate road, deep in the Louisiana woods

The Bonnie and Clyde 1934 Ford V8 Deluxe Sedan after the ambush

The Bonnie and Clyde Death Car on display at a museum in Nevada

 
Historical marker on the South lawn, Indiana State House at Indianapolis.

Lincoln’s body (above) departed Washington in a nine-car funeral train. The 1,700-
mile trip back to Illinois was essentially over the same tracks that carried the then 
President- elect east in 1861. Cities along the route that hold funeral processions 
included Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago. 

The locomotive Nashville of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad pulled the Lincoln funeral train.

This is the last known high-quality photograph of Lincoln.

 


President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes
Booth. He was carried across the street to a small room in a boarding house
where he never regained consciousness. Lincoln died early the next morning.

The Presidential Box at Ford’s Theatre

The Philadelphia Derringer pistol Booth used to shoot  Lincoln is on display
at the museum in Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.

 
John Wilkes Booth