The last words Abraham Lincoln heard
Hear round-the-clock presentations today and tomorrow about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination where it happened. Ford’s Theatre is hosting a one-act play, ranger lectures and first-person accounts of what it was like to be there the night Lincoln was shot. On Wednesday, Ford’s will lay a wreath at precisely 7:22 a.m., marking the moment the president died. Bells will toll across the city, as they did in 1865.
The last words Lincoln heard were from the stage during the play “Our American Cousin.” At 10:15 p.m., actor Harry Hawk, playing the title role, stood alone on stage and aimed a laugh-out-loud line at a female character who had just exited: “Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? Well I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap!”
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