The bullet John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Lincoln is on display at the National Museum for Health and Medicine, in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Also on display, the attending surgeon, Dr. Edward Curtis’ letter to his mother describing the president’s autopsy.“He says, ‘There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass no bigger than the end of my finger; dull, motionless, harmless, yet the cause of such mighty change in the world’s history like we may never realize.'”
Also on display, pieces of Wilkes Booth’s vertebrae, shards of the president’s skull, bits of his hair and Dr. Curtis’ cuffs which are soaked with the president’s blood.