Winter Auction 2016 Closing January 30th
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/31/2016
On April 14, 1865, at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by famous actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Just five days earlier, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Lincoln died the morning following the shooting on April 15, 1865.
The Boston Herald newspaper is from April 16th, 1865, the day after Lincoln died. The articles contain the sentiment at the time with the headlines reading, among others, “Our National Calamity,” “Hung Be the Heavens in Black,” “The Assassination and Its Horrors!” “The Secret, Cowardly Murderer Still Free”” “Superhuman Efforts for Arrest!” “Booth and His Accomplices!” “Revelations of their Devilish Plot!” “No Trace of the Assassins Up To a Late Hour Last Night” and “Funeral of the President Not Yet Fixed.”
Here is an opportunity to read first hand the information disseminated to American citizens immediately following the assassination of one of America’s greatest presidents.