PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln’s death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; ...
PHOENIX — A new attraction based on the life and death of President Abraham Lincoln is open in Scottsdale and will run until mid-February. The Lincoln: Assassination and Honor event will be open from ...
It slowly registered that the woman standing next to me was quietly sobbing. As I turned, she was holding her face in her hands, and I could see the slight trembling movement of her shoulders. That ...
Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be killed by an assassin's bullet. A total of four presidents have been shot and killed while in office. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the ...
On April 15, 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln died in a rooming house across the street from Ford’s Theater where he had been shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln’s ...
On the night he died, 8 articles were discovered inside a compartment in Abraham Lincoln's wallet. John Avlon explains how these treasured clippings speak to Lincoln's state of mind at the end of the ...