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assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Broadside advertising a $100,000 reward for the capture of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and David Harold (a misspelling of Herold), suspected of conspiring in the assassination of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, 1865.
“O Captain! My Captain!”
150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination.
On the evening of April 14, 1865, as the U.S. Civil War wound to a close, Pres. Abraham Lincoln and his wife went to Washington’s Ford’s Theatre to see the comedy Our American Cousin. There, in his box, the president was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next morning. After a massive manhunt, Booth was captured on April 26 in Virginia, where he was fatally shot (either by a soldier or by himself).