John Parker: The Lincoln Bodyguard Who Left His Post on April 14, 1865
The wooden chair outside Box 7 at Ford’s Theatre was empty. It should not have been — but the man assigned to sit in it had slipped away, and in that absence, the course of American history turned on a single unguarded door.
Washington, April 14, 1865: A City Exhaling
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