"It was the evening of Friday, April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln and his wife went to a play at Ford's Theatre. But the president did not see the end of the play. During the third act, a man entered the president's box. He shot Mr. Lincoln in the head. The president was taken across the stree to the Petersen boardinghouse ... Elizabeth is a young girl who might have lived next door to the boardinghouse. This is her story of what she saw that fateful night."--Page 4 of cover.