Museum to host ‘Lincoln’s Final Hours’ program April 12

The Milford Museum will continue its American History Series at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 12, at Milford Public Library, 11 S.E. Front St., Milford.

Author Kathryn Canavan will be presenting a program titled “Lincoln’s Final Hours,” about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She will focus on the perspective of the ordinary people who were in the audience at Ford's Theatre, and the fascinating individuals who boarded at the house directly across the street where the president spent his final hours. Canavan will show how these people became caught up in the tragedy and had information that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and the Metropolitan Police did not. Just weeks before the assassination, John Wilkes Booth had napped on the same bed where Lincoln eventually struggled for his life. They were ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary event – the nation’s first presidential assassination.

Canavan’s book, “Lincoln’s Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President,” uncovers new information about what else was happening inside Petersen’s Boardinghouse on the night Lincoln died there.