I saw Lincoln shot!
Subtitle: and here is my story -- told now for the first time
By: by William J. Ferguson
Contributors: Crowell, Merle, 1888-1956
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Assassination
Other titles: Ferguson -- who saw the greatest murder in modern history.
Description: The actor William J. Ferguson (1845-1930) and actress Laura Keene were standing off stage at the first entrance, opposite the President's box, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln and fled. Ferguson has been described as the last surviving eyewitness. He heard the shot, looked up and saw Lincoln's head slump, then Booth jumped to the stage and rushed between him and Keene.
Notes: Detached from The American Magazine, August, 1920.

Text in three columns.

With Ferguson -- who saw the greatest murder in modern history / by Merle Crowell.