The Day Lincoln Was Shot

A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.

Cast

Rob Morrow

as John Wilkes Booth

Lance Henriksen

as Abraham Lincoln

Donna Murphy

as Mary Todd Lincoln

Jean Louisa Kelly

as Lucy Hale

Wil Wheaton

as Robert Todd Lincoln

Titus Welliver

as Lewis Thornton Paine

Jaimz Woolvett

as David E. Herold

Jeremy Sisto

as Frederick Seward

Kirk B.R. Woller

as George A. Atzerodt

John Pleshette

as William Henry Seward

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