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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Death notices Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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sassination in FordsTheatre, the death of Lincoln in the house across the street,the attempted assassination of Seward, the funeral in Wash-ington, the departure of the funeral train, the burial inIllinois. And, concurrently, you read of the inaugurationof Johnson and the closing moments of the war—the cap-ture of Mobile, the surrender of Johnston, the flight ofJefferson Davis, and the proclamation of Amnesty, and, in THE the Times for May 2 you see the happier headline, DAWN MONTH OF PEACE. Concurrently also you read of surmises as \\aou \c\>c\ to tne nature and extent of the conspiracy, the pursuit of Booth, the arrest of his accomplices, the death of Booth and Herrold in the barn, and the offering of the $100,000 reward for the conspirator, Jeff Davis. The twenty-two consecutive numbers of The New-YorkTimes, April 15-May 10, 1865, have been bound in blackcloth with red leather label, making a convenient foliovolume of about 175 pages that belongs in any Lincolncollection. $50.
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\ N\ William H. Wanamaker reads copy of Daily Evening Bulletinrecounting the death of Abraham Lincoln THE ASSASSINATION-AS WE TOLD IT Wm. Wanamaker Finds Old Bulletin Story Of Lincolns End BY CARL W. McCARDLE(Of The Bulletin Staff) William H. Wanamaker had hadthe box for a long time. It was avery old box. It had belonged to hisgrandmother, Mrs. Charlotte Neill. The other day Mr. Wanamakerdecided to open it. The first thinghe saw was a $500 Confederatebond. Mrs. Neill had not botheredto clip the coupon. Next there wassome Confederate money. And nextwas a newspaper. It was a two-page paper, folded. Mr. Wanamaker unfolded it, andhis eye fell on this despatch fromWashington, which began: A stroke from Heaven, layingthe whole of the city in instant ruins,could not have startled us as did theword that broke from Fords Thea-ter a half hour ago that Ihe Presi-dent had been shot ... The despatch was dated Friday,April 14, 11.15 P. M. The newspaper was the DailyEvening Bulletin, and was the iss

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