Administered to the dying president and describes the effort of the doctors. Our speaker tonight is very experienced. Rather new on the lecture circuit. But he has experience to speak from. He has been a practicing physician on Infectious Diseases for 37 years. He practiced in california before coming to d. C. Where he has been active speaking for the National Museum of civil war medicine. He frequently lectures civil war groups. We are thankful to have him speak to us tonight. Hes a member of the board of directors of the society of civil war surgeons and public concerning, he is what we call a switch hitter he does reenacting as a physician in the civil war for confederate and union soldiers. We are happy to have you anyway, jon. Please welcome to the podium, dr. Jon willen. [applause] dr. Willen ok. Thats better. Normally, when i give talks, i think the organizers for inviting me. In this case, being the chairman of this group, i have to thank myself. We will dispense with that. As
Background, the context is the theater. This was an act that occurred in a theater, by an actor, with other actors standing by. And i wanted to look at it through the eyes of those people. And when i was working on the president s book and i was working on the lincoln chapters, i kept coming across this iconic playbill for our american cousin. I looked at it and i kept thinking, these are real people most of whose names have been lost. I mean, if you asked people on the street who the people were involved with the lincoln assassination, certainly people know lincoln, they know booth, maybe 1 in 10,000 would know laura keene. But almost no one would know the names john dyott, harry hawk, billy withers. These were major names in the events of that night. So i started looking even closer to get a sense of, who were these people . I began to find in some cases their names were spelled wrong or the names were a misrepresentation. In some cases its really difficult tracking down actors, beca
Back and forth several times before he actually went up to the box upstairs. So i wanted the readers to feel like, what must they have gone through. Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has been assassinated in your workplace by one of your most admired, respected colleagues. Fearing for your own safety and the fear of being thought complicit. Reelecting in panic that could be construed as hostile to the president. As well as the times you could be seen socializing with the suspect. The more i start theres a saloon on the south side of fords theater. The star saloon. Theres a saloon next door on the north side, the green back saloon. There were a lot of trips to those saloons that day. Near as i can figure booth alone made seven or eight trips over there in the afternoon or evening which gives you some feeling about working up his courage for what he did. From that moment on, your world would never be the same. You would be intear gated, perhaps imprisoned. You
Can say this is the definitive site in the federal city and the one site i have really enjoyed in the course of my career and all the interaction i have had with various historians and other scholars who i see come and go, as well as the comradeship i have daily with fellow rangers. I want to cover the history of fords theatre, sort of a general history, and work my way into the assassination. A little bit about the historical background of the theatre. The theatre was created in 1860, 1861, from what was originally a Baptist Church built on the Current Location on 511 10th street in 1833. The ford brothers were originally from maryland baltimore, where they ran three or four other theatres as well as an opera house. The theatre, when it opened at the outset of president lincolns term in office, it had a shortlived life. Following the assassination of president lincoln, the ford brothers were unable to reopen the theatre in the aftermath of the tragedy. There was public outrage at any
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