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| Keywords: Police Blotter Listing the Assassination of President Lincoln - NARA - 301678.jpg Scope and content President Abraham Lincoln led the United States through its most terrible crisis At the end of the war he appealed to people's nobler instincts speaking words of reconciliation and healing Lincoln was assassinated on April 14 1865 while attending a performance at Ford's Theater This police blotter captures the reaction of the officer on duty the night of the assassination The Washington Metropolitan Police Department was one of several civil and military police groups involved in the investigation General notes Exhibit History American Originals December 1995 - December 1996 National Archives Rotunda Washington DC Exhibit No 624 0030 Washington Behind the Monuments May 1990 - May 1991 National Archives Circular Gallery Washington DC Exhibit No 566 xxxx 301678 Local identifier District of Columbia Metropolitan Police 1861 - Archives I Reference Section Textual Archives Services Division NWCT1R National Archives Building 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20408 1865-04-14 Record group Record Group 351 Records of the Government of the District of Columbia 1791 - 1978 Record group ARC 659 Blotters compiled 09/1862 - 05/31/1933 Series ARC 301677 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWCTB-351-PI186E126-VOL5 4141865 <br /> NAIL Control Number NWDT1-351-PI186E126-VOL5 4141865 Other versions <gallery> File Police_Blotter_Listing_the_Assassination_of_President_Lincoln_-_NARA_-_301678 tif tif File Police_Blotter_Listing_the_Assassination_of_President_Lincoln_-_NARA_-_301678 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Assassination of Abraham Lincoln History of the United States History of the United States 1849 “1865 Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia Manuscripts of the American Civil War | ||||
