Keys to the Abraham Lincoln Conspirators Prison Cells
date: label: associated date
content: 1865
name: label: associated person
content: Lincoln, Abraham
notes: label: Description
content: Once captured, the Lincoln conspirators were closely and constantly guarded. During their trial, iron keys locked their prison cells.
label: Description
content: John Wilkes Booth’s attack on Lincoln was part of a larger plot to assassinate national leaders and throw the North into turmoil. The conspirators also planned to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Besides Booth, eight individuals were charged. Because the plot was considered an act of war, a military commission tried the accused. The court sentenced four suspects to be hanged, and the others to prison.
label: Description
content: Transfer from the War Department, 1904
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: District of Columbia, Fort Lesley J. McNair
topic: label: Subject
content: Assassination
label: Subject
content: Prisons
label: related event
content: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: War Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.010238a
label: catalog number
content: 10238a
label: accession number
content: 42272
objectType: label: Object Name
content: key
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 4 in x 7/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.2225 cm