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Washington, D.C., Aug. 10 1937. The gun used by John Wilkes Booth to kill President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 was on display at the Judge Advocate General s Office in the War Department. Edwin B. Pitts, Chief Clerk of the Judge Advocate General s Office, is shown holding the gun in this picture, 8 10 1937.

Photographed by Harris & Ewing on 4×5 glass plate negative.