2012, an account of the first doctor to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater, was discovered in the US National Archives. The long-lost report by Dr. Charles Leale details the efforts to help the mortally wounded president, and was written just hours after his death. The Army surgeon, who sat 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford's Theater that night in April 1865, saw assassin John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage and went immediately to help the President.2012, an account of the first doctor to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater, was discovered in the US National Archives. The long-lost report by Dr. Charles Leale details the efforts to help the mortally wounded president, and was written just hours after his death. The Army surgeon, who sat 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford's Theater that night in April 1865, saw assassin John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage and went immediately to help the President.
2012, an account of the first doctor to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater, was discovered in the US National Archives. The long-lost report by Dr. Charles Leale details the efforts to help the mortally wounded president, and was written just hours after his death. The Army surgeon, who sat 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford's Theater that night in April 1865, saw assassin John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage and went immediately to help the President.