Object Details
- associated person
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Description
- Once captured, the Lincoln conspirators were closely and constantly guarded. During their trial, iron keys locked their prison cells.
- John Wilkes Booth’s attack on Lincoln was part of a larger plot to assassinate national leaders and throw the North into turmoil. The conspirators also planned to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Besides Booth, eight individuals were charged. Because the plot was considered an act of war, a military commission tried the accused. The court sentenced four suspects to be hanged, and the others to prison.
- Transfer from the War Department, 1904
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department
- associated date
- 1865
- ID Number
- PL.010238a
- catalog number
- 10238a
- accession number
- 42272
- Object Name
- key
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 7/8 in x 4 in x 7/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.2225 cm
- used in
- United States: District of Columbia, Fort Lesley J. McNair
- Related Publication
- Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Assassination
- Prisons
- related event
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Record ID
- nmah_524528
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-5de6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
