AFTE Store - The Booth Deringer : “A Genuine Artifact”

The events surrounding the first assassination of an American President are extensively chronicled with regard to cast of characters, social and political repercussions, and ultimate resolution, particularly as Lincoln+s death occurred in the direct aftermath of the nation+s greatest schism and would be a far-reaching factor in the future course of history. In the midst of the volumes of material treating the Lincoln assassination, the focus of this article is not on the motives of John Wilkes Booth or on the response of the American people to the death of President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. on April 15, 1865, but rather on the weapon that created the fatal ripple which is known as the Booth Deringer.