Charles Sabin Taft, M.D. was a bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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On April 14, 1865, Taft was in the audience watching the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when Lincoln was shot. Taft was either the second or third physician to get to the President after the shooting. Due to the assassin having barricaded the entrance to the President's box, he was boosted up from the main floor of the theatre.[1]