Edmund Spangler

Edmund Ned Spangler was an American carpenter and stagehand who was employed at Fords Theatre at the time of President Abraham Lincolns murder. He was convicted of conspiracy for his involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln but was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in March 1869.

Spangler was born in York, Pennsylvania, one of four sons of William Spangler, a county sheriff. Spanglers mother died when he was an infant. He was baptized as Edmund Spangler at the First Reformed Church in York on August 10, 1825. Throughout his life, Spangler went by several names as an adult, friends and coworkers knew him as Ned, after his arrest, he signed his statement as Edman Spangler while family records name him EdmundEdward.

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