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John Wilkes Booth's final days: How Lincoln's assassin met his end in rural Virginia
Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...
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April 14, Abraham Lincoln fatally shot at Ford’s Theatre
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the ...
Deseret News archives: Nation mourned after President Lincoln’s death at assassin’s hands
On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?
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Editorial: The last casualty: Lincoln gave his life to expand freedom and hold nation together
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...
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The Lincoln bodyguard who lived and died in Fargo
Moorhead High School students read from a diary written by Smith Stimmel, a Fargo man who served as one of President Lincoln’s bodyguards. Smith Stimmel is pictured as part of President Abraham ...
The Gazette16dOpinion
Sad fate for many connected to Lincoln assassination
_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln and how two Irishmen might have prevented it
Abraham Lincoln died 160 years ago today at Ford’s Theater ... A story by Tom Pendel, who worked in the White House for thirty-six years, confirms that. On one occasion, President Lincoln ...