Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother Surgeon Charles S. Taft was the first surgeon to reach Lincoln after Booth shot him. Col. Osborne Oldroyd in his book The Assassination of Lincoln, which is authentic, tells of Surgeon Taft being the first surgeon to reach Lincoln and he says Surgeon Taft had charge of the case until the arrival of the Lincoln's private physician and the Surgeon-General...
...brother told us, "When I saw Booth's face and heard the shot I knew what had happened.'' He climbed on to the stage and was helped into the box the same way Booth had come down. Col. Oldroyd says, "Surgeon Taft stood at the head of the dying president all that dreadful night controlling the flow of the blood from the wound with his finger...
...Surgeon-General ordered Surgeon Taft to report to the artist for the official picture of the Deathbed of Lincoln. That picture may be seen in the house on Tenth Street where Lincoln died, in the museum of Lincoln relics, formerly kept by Col. Oldroyd. In the picture my brother is shown standing at the head of the bed with his hands on Lincoln's head. I have seen some incorrect pictures of the Deathbed, but this is the authentic...
...JULIA TAFT BAYNE...
...Surgeon Taft was a second cousin of the late William Howard Taft. Surgeon Leale's claim of first-to-Lincoln rested largely on his own sworn statement on reporting the autopsy to the Surgeon-General. Dr. Leale also claimed to have put the half-dollars on the dead Lincoln's staring eyes, to have bound up the drooping jaw with a pocket handkerchief...