Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln was in an unusual mood: Happy. Giddy, even. He was a man freed of the heaviest burden any American president had ever been forced to bear ...

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Ford's Theatre, where he was shot, previews its plans to honor him, including living historians, an all-night candlelight vigil, and a ...

2. Booth may have come close to killing Lincoln six weeks earlier A scene in front of the Capitol during Lincoln's second inauguration, 1865, just six weeks before his assassination.

The Lincoln assassination, 150 years later. David Jackson. USA TODAY. A century-and-a-half ago, the horrors of the Civil War gave way to another horror: The murder of an American president.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest turning points in American history, and the new Apple TV+ series “Manhunt” examines the behind-the-scenes drama of a wartime ...

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Most Americans know that much history. But the true story goes deeper than one man firing one bullet. When Monica Beletsky learned the assassination ...

On July 7, 1865, four conspirators – including Lewis Powell, pictured - were hanged by the neck at Fort McNair in Washington for conspiring to kill key political figures, including Lincoln.

Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, and Kaelynn Edmondson, archival project coordinator, will host a lecture and exhibit unveiling ...

The most detailed eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in existence is set to go on sale 150 years after the former president was shot dead by John Wilkes Booth.

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