dr. leal heard that and shouted to the officers and soldiers "take the president to that house." so they crossed the street and came up the stairs. and so, as lincoln was being carried up the staircase, he was still alive, unconscious. and the sight of abraham lincoln here at the top of the staircase was the last time the american people saw him alive. dr. leal came in this door. dr. leal came in this door. and he told safford, "take us to your best room." now, the hallway is narrow. it was already filled with the lincoln entourage, the doctors the soldiers. there was a narrow staircase on the right. safford knew the best room was the front parlor, occupied by george and hilda francis, so he reached for the door here. it was locked. he went down to the second door here. this door was locked. hilda francis was inside frantically getting dressed. she had seen the president being brought to the house through the front windows, so she was already dressed for bed, so she wanted to put on clothes. s

dr. leale and dr.n and tried to make him as comfortable as they could because they knew from the first moments that his wound was mortal. mary lincoln spent most of that night in the front parlor of the petersen house overcome with grief, already mourning the death of her youngest son willy the assassination of her husband was too much for her to bear. her eldest son, captain robert todd lincoln came to her from the white house and attempted to comfort her throughout the night. in the rear parlor of the petersen house secretary of war, edward stanton began his investigation into the events surrounding the assassination of president lincoln. he questioned eyewitnesss. he sends orders out for the arrest of john wilkes booth and he began to send information out about the events at the theatre. as the news spread citizens from all over the city came to see for themselves if the horrible rumors that they had heard were, in fact, true. in the confusion and chaos of the night's events panic and fear of a sout

dr. leale, when major rathbone cried out for a surgeon to come to their aid, he is the first to enter the theater box. he sees the blood on the floor for major rathbone's stab wound and thinks it is president lincoln's blood. he steps in and sees the unconscious lincoln. he lays them down on the floor looking for a stab wound and cannot find anything. he is the one who discovers the bullet wound just above the left ear. he examines the point of entry and instantly knows the wound is mortal, the president is going to die. they have got to get him to a bad. there is no other place to carry him other than the closest bed otherwise he would die in the theater creek they had no idea he would linger for nine hours. the decision is made to carry lincoln to the first place they can find where there is a bed. several men would carry the president. a surgeon, tact, also assisted. the lead actress also assisted brought water. when the carry lincoln down the spiral staircase out to the dark of the night, g

dr. leale was the first person to reach lincoln in the presidential box and started the care for lincoln that evening and laura king, our actress lead actress, she also made her way to the box after the assassination and cradled the president's head on her lap briefly, brought water to the box for him and then left later to try to get the crowd under control, and then lurking in the background sneaking around the corner, we have the aasasszsasassin, john wilkes booth. lincoln and the guests arrive a little bit late to the theater. lincoln was finishing up business at the white house, so when they came in, the show was already in progress. the show was stop edped and president and first lady introduced, crowd cheered played "hail to the chief," and we have orchestra that night, this violin and drumsticks were used that evening. these have not been on view for several years, part of the national park service collection, and then our second -- or section is the actual act of the assassination, and

about the stories of the people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination like dr. leale. we don't get to what regular people experienced. that was what the remembering lincoln project was meant to solve, and we've been so lucky because we found partners and historical societies and libraries and institutions across the country that are allowing us to -- that allowed us to digitize their items from their collection and put them together so that you can explore them and learn about these responses on your own. >> now going to tell you about some of our favorite things that we have in this collection. lincoln was assassinated at 10: 15 p.m. no one knows the exact moment. across the street from us at ford's theater. word got out quickly of the assassination attempt and word got out lincoln dying the next morning at 7: 22 a.m. and now in that day, a lot of the country found out pretty quickly because there were telegraph lines in many places, a lot of the major u.s. cities were on telegraph lines no everywhere was though. somewhere that was was st. paul, minnesota where a jou

dr. charles leale. that was the same night that dr. eated burn victims which is why he became a union army surgeon which is why he went to for theater. when booth made the speech, that led him to make the decision to go to ford's theatre to study the present' feature. that is why he wanted to be there. the other thing he may or may have not have done is administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and closed-chest cardiac massage. he did not mention that in his report in 1865. he mentioned it in a speech in 1909, the hundredth anniversary of lincoln's birth. there is more. we do not have time. dr. nurnberger: wow. i'm going to apply view. -- applaud you. i did not know he was there on april 11. >> [inaudible] dr. nurnberger: i will use the wrong word. he is going to be a villain next week. his first name is doctor. his name was dr. doctor bliss. >> dr. richard mott, who was -- richard mudd, who was mudd's grandson, claims the saying did not come from mudd. the mudd papers, which were newspapers pre-civil war, which were like the modern day "