This modern cut-away drawing shows Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. Akin to a movie, it illustrates the activity from the time President Abraham Lincoln was shot until he was carried across the street to Petersen House. The upper part of the view shows assassin John Wilkes Booth on the stage, having leaped from the presidential box, while the lower section takes the tragedy to the Petersen House, where Lincoln died.