Account of Lincoln assassination donated to museum

SPRINGFIELD -- A handwritten account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination is being donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

The account of the 1865 shooting was written by Ohio Congressman John R. Morris, who was inside Ford's Theatre when John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and attacked Lincoln as he was watching a play.

The dramatic description was written from memory by Morris 30 years later, two years before his death in 1899.

It was donated to the Springfield museum by a Colorado man whose mother obtained the letter from a neighbor in the 1930s.