1865 Civil War newspaper w REWARD AD $100,000 for ASSASSINS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN


1865 Civil War newspaper w REWARD AD $100,000 for ASSASSINS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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1865 Civil War newspaper w REWARD AD $100,000 for ASSASSINS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
$100.00


1865 Civil War newspaper with a REWARD AD offering $100,000 for information leading to the capture of the ASSASSINS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN + long detailed eyewitness account of the ASSASSINATION of PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALCivil War NEWSPAPER,the Boston Daily Journal (MA) dated April 20, 1865.

This newspaper contains a prominent inside page ad offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the assassins of President ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

There are also inside page \"stacked\" headlines and a long detailed eyewitness account of the ASSASSINATION and DEATH of President ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford\'s Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac.

Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. An unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson 30 years before in 1835, and Lincoln had himself been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt by an unknown assailant in August 1864. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a offer to revive the Confederate cause.

Booth\'s co-conspirators were Lewis Powell and David Herold, who were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt who was tasked to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.

Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln at Ford\'s Theatre in Washington, D.C.. He died early the next morning. The rest of the conspirators\' plot failed; Powell only managed to wound Seward, while Atzerodt, Johnson\'s would-be assassin, lost his nerve and fled. The funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln was a period of national mourning.

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1865 Civil War newspaper w REWARD AD $100,000 for ASSASSINS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
$100.00

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