Apr 15 1865 headline newspaper ABRAHAM LINCOLN SHOT by ASSASSIN - 1st report

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Apr 15 1865 headline newspaper ABRAHAM LINCOLN SHOT by ASSASSIN - 1st report :
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Apr 15 1865 headline newspaper ABRAHAM LINCOLN SHOT by ASSASSIN - 1st report while he had not yet died !! -inv #6X-122

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theAlbany Atlas and Argus (NY) dated April 15, 1865.This newspaper contains prominent front pafe \"satcked\" headlines and a 1/2 column report (a very first report) of the ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT on the life of President ABRAHAM LINCOLN.at Ford\'s Theater in Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865. As this was a morning newspaper it contains news that the President had been shot but had not yet died.

RARE EARLY LINCOLN ASSSASINATION report of his being SHOT with no news yet that he had died !!

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford\'s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated; his funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning.

Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln\'s death the plot failed: Seward was only wounded and Johnson\'s would-be attacker lost his nerve. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day manhunt, and several other conspirators were later hanged.

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