The Franklin Republican, Friday, January 9, 1891, page 1, column 5
SAT NEAR BY
When President Lincoln Was Shot.
THE REPUBLICAN office has a sort of picture gallery on its walls. John C. Dunn, whom everybody knows as “Jack” was in the office the other day, and incidentally was looking through the “gallery” and talking about actors. The portrait of Edwin Booth led Mr. Dunn to remark that he had seen John Wilkes Booth on the stage. It was the night that Booth shot President Lincoln. The President occupied a box at the right of the stage in Ford’s theater, Washington.
Mr. Dunn was in the mail service at that time having been detailed from the ranks at Petersburg. He was mail clerk on the boat Lady Lang. He and the steward had gone to Ford’s to see “American Cousin.” They sat in the parquette, well toward the front; and about ten feet from the box occupied by President Lincoln to their right. The first act had been played. A loud report was heard, which at first was thought to have occurred in the property room. Booth was then seen to leap from the box upon the stage. As he did so his foot caught in the folds of the flag which draped the President’s box. Booth fell and, as was afterward ascertained, broke his ankle. The lights in the auditorium were immediately extinguished.
Dunn at once leaped up onto the stage. No one had yet reached the President and everything was in wild confusion. A surgeon rushed onto the stage but could not climb up to the President’s box, unassisted. Dunn braced himself against the proscenium arch, and the surgeon mounted his back and into the box.
Mr. Dunn never knew the name of the surgeon until recently when he narrated the circumstance through the National Tribune, and made inquiry about the surgeon. He learned that the surgeon’s name was George W. McMillin, and that he died about five years ago, in Neosho county, Kansas.
Ford’s theater was never used as such after that terrible deed.
Mr. Dunn relates that as he and the steward went to Ford’s on that evening, they stopped at the hotel where Vice-President Johnson boarded. He says that the Vice President was maudlin drunk and making a sorry spectacle of himself.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
SAT NEAR BY
When President Lincoln Was Shot.
THE REPUBLICAN office has a sort of picture gallery on its walls. John C. Dunn, whom everybody knows as “Jack” was in the office the other day, and incidentally was looking through the “gallery” and talking about actors. The portrait of Edwin Booth led Mr. Dunn to remark that he had seen John Wilkes Booth on the stage. It was the night that Booth shot President Lincoln. The President occupied a box at the right of the stage in Ford’s theater, Washington.
Mr. Dunn was in the mail service at that time having been detailed from the ranks at Petersburg. He was mail clerk on the boat Lady Lang. He and the steward had gone to Ford’s to see “American Cousin.” They sat in the parquette, well toward the front; and about ten feet from the box occupied by President Lincoln to their right. The first act had been played. A loud report was heard, which at first was thought to have occurred in the property room. Booth was then seen to leap from the box upon the stage. As he did so his foot caught in the folds of the flag which draped the President’s box. Booth fell and, as was afterward ascertained, broke his ankle. The lights in the auditorium were immediately extinguished.
Dunn at once leaped up onto the stage. No one had yet reached the President and everything was in wild confusion. A surgeon rushed onto the stage but could not climb up to the President’s box, unassisted. Dunn braced himself against the proscenium arch, and the surgeon mounted his back and into the box.
Mr. Dunn never knew the name of the surgeon until recently when he narrated the circumstance through the National Tribune, and made inquiry about the surgeon. He learned that the surgeon’s name was George W. McMillin, and that he died about five years ago, in Neosho county, Kansas.
Ford’s theater was never used as such after that terrible deed.
Mr. Dunn relates that as he and the steward went to Ford’s on that evening, they stopped at the hotel where Vice-President Johnson boarded. He says that the Vice President was maudlin drunk and making a sorry spectacle of himself.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
The Franklin Republican, Friday, January 9, 1891, page 1, column 5
SAT NEAR BY
When President Lincoln Was Shot.
THE REPUBLICAN office has a sort of picture gallery on its walls. John C. Dunn, whom everybody knows as “Jack” was in the office the other day, and incidentally was looking through the “gallery” and talking about actors. The portrait of Edwin Booth led Mr. Dunn to remark that he had seen John Wilkes Booth on the stage. It was the night that Booth shot President Lincoln. The President occupied a box at the right of the stage in Ford’s theater, Washington.
Mr. Dunn was in the mail service at that time having been detailed from the ranks at Petersburg. He was mail clerk on the boat Lady Lang. He and the steward had gone to Ford’s to see “American Cousin.” They sat in the parquette, well toward the front; and about ten feet from the box occupied by President Lincoln to their right. The first act had been played. A loud report was heard, which at first was thought to have occurred in the property room. Booth was then seen to leap from the box upon the stage. As he did so his foot caught in the folds of the flag which draped the President’s box. Booth fell and, as was afterward ascertained, broke his ankle. The lights in the auditorium were immediately extinguished.
Dunn at once leaped up onto the stage. No one had yet reached the President and everything was in wild confusion. A surgeon rushed onto the stage but could not climb up to the President’s box, unassisted. Dunn braced himself against the proscenium arch, and the surgeon mounted his back and into the box.
Mr. Dunn never knew the name of the surgeon until recently when he narrated the circumstance through the National Tribune, and made inquiry about the surgeon. He learned that the surgeon’s name was George W. McMillin, and that he died about five years ago, in Neosho county, Kansas.
Ford’s theater was never used as such after that terrible deed.
Mr. Dunn relates that as he and the steward went to Ford’s on that evening, they stopped at the hotel where Vice-President Johnson boarded. He says that the Vice President was maudlin drunk and making a sorry spectacle of himself.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
SAT NEAR BY
When President Lincoln Was Shot.
THE REPUBLICAN office has a sort of picture gallery on its walls. John C. Dunn, whom everybody knows as “Jack” was in the office the other day, and incidentally was looking through the “gallery” and talking about actors. The portrait of Edwin Booth led Mr. Dunn to remark that he had seen John Wilkes Booth on the stage. It was the night that Booth shot President Lincoln. The President occupied a box at the right of the stage in Ford’s theater, Washington.
Mr. Dunn was in the mail service at that time having been detailed from the ranks at Petersburg. He was mail clerk on the boat Lady Lang. He and the steward had gone to Ford’s to see “American Cousin.” They sat in the parquette, well toward the front; and about ten feet from the box occupied by President Lincoln to their right. The first act had been played. A loud report was heard, which at first was thought to have occurred in the property room. Booth was then seen to leap from the box upon the stage. As he did so his foot caught in the folds of the flag which draped the President’s box. Booth fell and, as was afterward ascertained, broke his ankle. The lights in the auditorium were immediately extinguished.
Dunn at once leaped up onto the stage. No one had yet reached the President and everything was in wild confusion. A surgeon rushed onto the stage but could not climb up to the President’s box, unassisted. Dunn braced himself against the proscenium arch, and the surgeon mounted his back and into the box.
Mr. Dunn never knew the name of the surgeon until recently when he narrated the circumstance through the National Tribune, and made inquiry about the surgeon. He learned that the surgeon’s name was George W. McMillin, and that he died about five years ago, in Neosho county, Kansas.
Ford’s theater was never used as such after that terrible deed.
Mr. Dunn relates that as he and the steward went to Ford’s on that evening, they stopped at the hotel where Vice-President Johnson boarded. He says that the Vice President was maudlin drunk and making a sorry spectacle of himself.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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