A.M.S. Crawford was a U.S. Army officer attending the April 14 Ford’s Theatre performance of “Our American Cousin.” Click to see what he saw.

Actor Harry Hawk was acting in the play and standing on the Ford’s Theatre stage when Booth attacked Lincoln. Click to see what he saw.

James Ferguson, who owned a restaurant near Ford’s Theatre, attended the show hoping to see General Ulysses S. Grant attend with the President that evening. Click to see whom he saw instead.

Actor Henry B. Philips was in the dressing room of Ford’s Theatre when he heard unusual noises. Click to see what he learned next.

William T. Kent was a clerk in the office of the Paymaster General who attended the performance that night. Click to see what he discovered by dropping his keys.

Joe Simms, working in the flies, saw Booth twice on the day of the assassination.

Mary Ann Turner lived in a brick cottage, in the alley to the immediate rear of Ford’s Theatre. Click to see what she saw.

John Fletcher, who worked at a stable, saw a man who had rented a horse from him and did not return it. Click to see who that man was.

P.F.W. Walker, a U.S. Army officer, hoped he might have a tip about a man arrested as a suspect in the Lincoln assassination. His tip proved to be one of many false leads investigators received. Click to see what he said.

William Bell was a servant at the home of Secretary of State William Seward. Click to learn what he witnessed.

Henry Rathbone, a major in the U.S. Army, sat in the Ford’s Theatre Presidential Box with President and Mrs. Lincoln. Click to see what a clerk recorded in a deposition he gave.

Leonard J. Farwell was Inspector of Patents and former governor of Wisconsin. Click to see what happened when he went to Vice President Johnson’s room at the Kirkwood House in the minutes after Booth shot Lincoln.

James W. Purdom, a farmer in Montgomery County, Maryland (just north of Washington), and a U.S. Army informer, received a tip about a man named George Atzerodt. Click to see what Purdom did with the tip.

Thomas Eckert was acting Assistant Secretary of War and a friend of President Lincoln. After Lincoln’s assassination, Eckert visited conspirator Lewis Powell in jail. Click to see what he reported Powell telling him.

Ellerslie Wallace, a Philadelphia doctor, wrote to the Secretary of War about a conversation he previously had with an actor who knew Booth. Click to see what he reported.

Harry Clay Ford managed Ford’s Theatre for his brother John, the theatre’s owner. Click to see what he told investigators he heard about a conversation between his ticket taker and Booth on Wednesday, April 12—two days before Booth shot Lincoln.

New Mexico’s delegate to the House of Representatives recalled in 1909 what he saw in Ford’s Theatre.

Anna E. Surratt was the daughter of Mary E. Surratt, who was arrested as part of the assassination conspiracy. Learn who she said would visit their house.

Edman “Ned” Spangler was a stagehand at Ford’s Theatre. Learn what he told investigators about when Booth came to him.

John T. Ford was the owner of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.. Learn what he told investigators about his interactions with Booth.

Dr. Samuel Mudd set Booth’s broken ankle during his escape. Learn what he said when asked about Booth.

Frank Washington, a formerly enslaved man who lived and worked at Dr. Samuel Mudd’s plantation, talked with investigators about his recollections of Booth’s visit.

Nancy Brown and Ann Brown, who lived in Washington, reported their suspicious neighbors.

William T. Kent was a clerk in the office of the Paymaster General.

John Lee, an investigator in Washington, searched the room of George Atzerodt, suspected of being part of the conspiracy.

Henry L. Burnett was a Special Judge Advocate appointed to investigate Lincoln’s assassination.

Testified in the conspiracy trial.