17 March

A plan to kidnap Lincoln on the road to a hospital performance collapses when he changes his schedule.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

Bonney meets Governor Lew Wallace secretly in Lincoln to discuss testimony in exchange for clemency.

Billy the Kid Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.