With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Dr. Robert King Stone (1822-1872) was the personal physician for the Lincoln family during the White House years. Called immediately after the president was shot on the evening of April 14, he tended to Lincoln until his death at 7:22 A.M. on April 15. Stone also participated in Lincoln’s autopsy, which took place later that day at the White House. Stone recounts these events in detail in this six-page draft for a lecture that was given to the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on May 3, 1865.

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The president, then lay, perfectly passive on his back as if quietly asleep, without any distortion of features though at times his respiration ...


Dr. Robert King Stone (1822-1872) was the personal physician for the Lincoln family during the White House years. Called immediately after the president was shot on the evening of April 14, he tended to Lincoln until his death at 7:22 A.M. on April 15. Stone also participated in Lincoln’s autopsy, which took place later that day at the White House. Stone recounts these events in detail in this six-page draft for a lecture that was given to the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on May 3, 1865.