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A small section of a dress bearing a dark blood stain from President Abraham Lincoln will be up for sale later this month when the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair comes to the Park ...
3. Booth vowed Lincoln's speech on April 11, 1865 would be his last U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is seen in a stereo photo card from the archives of the Library of Congress taken by U.S ...
One hundred fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln was enjoying a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, when an assassin shot him at point-blank range in the back of the head. He ...
It was the evening of April 14, 1865. The Civil War had ended and Washington was celebrating. President Abraham Lincoln entered the balcony at Ford's Theater to a standing ovation: a symbol of a ...
This is the original AP story written on the night of April 14, 1865 – 150 years ago – detailing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Skip to content. KOIN.com.
It was 151 years ago tonight the President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. Lincoln died the next morning, and in the aftermath, some odd facts seemed to pop up.
Abraham Lincoln drew his last mortal breath at 7:22 a.m. on Saturday, April 15, 1865 – 150 years ago. Few events in American history unleashed deeper and more profound mass mourning than the ...
Edward Steers talked about the book he edited, [The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators], published in 2003 by University Press of Kentucky. He discussed… ...
Historical associations across the country are commemorating the death of President Abraham Lincoln, shot 150 years ago Tuesday while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
Editor’s note: On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken ca… ...
David Reynolds, editor of [Lincoln's Selected Writings], talked about actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Lincoln as the Civil War came to an end in April 1865.