Immediately after Lincoln died, Hermann Faber, a hospital steward detailed to the Army Medical Museum as a medical artist, entered the room and sketched the scene. The drawing, …

There is a remarkable case history in one of the major forensic medical texts which describes a fellow who died from a 22-caliber wound to the back of the head, and the bullet never even …

There was a gunshot wound of the head around which the scalp was greatly thickened by hemorrhage into its tissue. The ball entered through the occipital bone about one inch to the …

Dec 8, 2025 · We have re-examined President Abraham Lincoln’s deadly head injury using modern neurosurgical and forensic principles, complimented and extending using AI analysis.

Did he ever regain consciousness? The bullet entered the left back side of Abraham Lincoln's head, about an inch to the left of the medial line of the skull and at the level of his ear. The …

There are 5 accounts of the findings of the president's autopsy; some conclude that the bullet entered on the left occipital skull and stayed on the left side of the brain, and others suggest …

Read about President Abraham Lincoln’s final hours, his cause of death, & autopsy report online at the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.

Dec 8, 2025 · We re-examined his fatal head wound through the lens of modern neurosurgery, focusing on projectile trajectory, biomechanics, skull base anatomy, fluid percussion, and …

On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head with a .41-caliber bullet fired from his single-shot Derringer pistol. Lincoln and his wife were …

Apr 11, 2023 · As the crowd went up in a roar of laughter, John Wilkes Booth slipped into President Abraham Lincoln’s box and shot him in the back of the head with a Derringer pistol.