Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

This is indeed a red-metre night in the history of Fort Sitter, April 14, 1865. Because tonight, President Abraham Lincoln and his party will attend a special charity performance of the celebrated English comedy Our American Covenants.

Inside the theater, the curtain has already gone up. Outside, here in front of the theater, the crowd of curious sector. proud of curious spectra. And around April 14th. The President of 1865. Place Washington, D.C.

You are there. Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theatre. CBS takes you back to one of the great drummers in our nation's history. All things are, as they were then, except for one thing. You are there.

You are there, is based on authentic historical facts and quotations. And now, Washington, April 14th, 1865, and John Daley. The damptons, Mr. Weather and Washington tonight, has not dampened the order of the clouds, who for far long days now have been wildly celebrating the surrender of General Lane and General Grant.

The people here are in high spirit, gathered around Fort Sinner, which is a three-story redstone building, windows and entrances This is in gray. Tossing those saloons is on the right. Ferguson saloon is on the left, and both of them are jammed.

The windows and doors of the houses along both sides of the street are open. People are hanging out of them for a look at the president. Although the curtain has gone up on the play, some members of the cast who are not on stage at the moment dand around in their costumes for a look at Mr. Lincoln.

There's John Dyerson, Mrs. Helen Muzzy, there's John, Miss Jane Gaudey, and John Wilp Booth, the handsome dashing Shakespearean favorite he is not in the performance tonight by the way I think I see over there oh yes there's mr. Harry Ford one of the three brothers who managed this theater now if I can just get through to an excuse me please let me push through here I'm sorry