4/14/1865: 7:30 am by ric gustafson
President Lincoln was reading official correspondence at the small table in his office.
Only a few blocks away, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was eating breakfast. He was a short paunchy person with gold rimmed glasses. His wife was standing next to him.
" Please send Mrs Lincoln our regrets".
He did not want to go to Ford's Theatre tonight with the President and his wife. Stanton was a complex man. He was stubborn, hard working and very loyal.
On the other side of Washington, John Wilkes Booth was also washed and out of bed. He was restless with less than six hours of sleep. He was not tall with black hair. Booth was an actor just like his father and his brother Edwin.
research help: ' the day Lincoln was shot' by Jim Bishop
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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