Capture Of John Wilkes Booth

This is Don Hollenbeck at the War Department in Washington. The Secretary of War has just released the following statement this 26th of April 1865, and I quoted, the War Department has received an unconfirmed report that John Wilks Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, is in the vicinity of Port Conway, Virginia.

Lieutenant Baker and Colonel Conger, two of the ablest agents of the United States Detective Bureau, have been rushed to Fort Conway with a detachment of cavalry, signed Edwin M. Stanton, unquote end of statement. Fort Conway is about 50 miles directly south of the nation's capital and Confederate territory. It's a small town on the north bank of the Rappahann. Eight row 26,

of several hundred eighteen sixty-five or Conway has not wanted and dead or alive John Wilkes spools. The most tragic manhumped in the history of the United States approaches its grim climax. CBS takes you back eighty-four years.

The Civil War has ended. President Lincoln has been assassinated. North and South alike shocked and appalled Wait for the capture of the man who killed him. Wait for the end of a bitter calamity. All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there.

You are there. Produced and directed by Robert Louis Chaeon is based on authentic historical fact and quotation. And now, Washington, a carter in the war he liked, it may see the capture of a well-known acto to only 12 days ago, stolen to a box at Ford's Theatre here in Washington, fired a ball

into the head of President Lincoln and escaped. John Daly and Ned Kalmer are in the area of Port Conway. They have been covering the manhunt for the CVS mobile unit and we expect to hear from them momentarily. There have been charges that the federal government has been lax and its efforts to capture both charges that Lincoln's assassination is part of a