Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...

In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president ... American death. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 150 ...

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Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14th, 1865, and he died the next day. Our coverage of the assassination ... The President had, in fact, attained ...

Just days after the Civil War ended President Abraham Lincoln was ... twentysixyearold actor John Wilkes Booth The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

When we think of the most legendary presidents our nation has had, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.