(역사) 링컨 대통령 암살의 마지막 순간
(역사) 링컨 대통령 암살의 마지막 순간
The assassination of President Lincoln and a new history discovered after all these years.
Tonight for the first time, we're seeing a fascinating first draft of American history,
147 years after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
A researcher with a good hunch has discovered a long forgotten document
written by the first doctor to reach the dying president's side that night,
just minutes after he was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington.
Our report tonight from NBC's Pete Williams.
It's a riveting account from an army doctor who was in Ford's Theater
that fateful night in 1865.
Dr Charles Reel just 23 years old guessed he was sitting about 40 feet from the president's box
when he said a shot ran out about 10:00 p.m.
In the flowing penmanship(서법) of his clerk with ornate(화려하게 장식된) capital letters and perfectly straight lines,
he describes rushing to Lincoln's box after hearing people in the theater
cry out that the president had been murdered.
Mrs. Lincoln repeatedly said, oh, doctor, do what you can for him, do what you can, he wrote.
The president was seated in a high banked arm chair
with his head leaning toward his right side.
His breathing was intermittent and the doctor could perceive no pulse,
no movement of the artery.
Discovering that President Lincoln had been shot,
Dr. Real ordered him moved to a house directly across the street
and laid on a bed diagonally, Dr, wrote, because Lincoln's 6'4" frame was so tall.
At 7:20 a.m., Dr. Real wrote, he breathed his last and the spirit fled to god who gave it.
You feel as you're reading his words,
as if you're a witness to the death of President Abraham Lincoln
from the moment he was shot until the moment he actually died.
Reel wrote his account just hours after the president died but it was soon forgotten,
then late last month, the remarkable document was rediscovered at the National Archives
by a researcher for the Lincoln Library and Museum in Illinois.
"This report's unique because of its immediacy.
It appeared right after or was written right after Lincoln was shot."
The document ends with Dr. Reel saying all in that bedroom bowed their heads for that family