Description: Original London Times April 29 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 16 Pages Please note pages 3,4,13,14,15 are missing but this does not effect the story in question. The initial shooting, followed by his death, played out on the front pages of the national press the following morning. The papers continued to issue new editions — a relatively new method enabled by printing press technology — as the hunt for his assassin John Wilkes Booth played out. The New York Herald, the nation's most widely read newspaper at the time, was one of the first outlets to report that Lincoln had been shot. Over 18 hours, the paper published an unprecedented seven editions providing updates on the president's condition. Today, the Newseum is displaying all of those editions, including a recently discovered 8:45 a.m. “extra” that was one of the first newspapers to report the president’s death.IMAGE: NEWSEUM COLLECTION April 14, 1865.Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin". Secretary of State William Henry Seward is shot by Lewis Paine at the same time at his home near the White House.April 21, 1865.Lincoln's body departs Washington in a nine-car funeral train. The 1,700-mile trip back to Illinois would essentially be over the same tracks that carried the then President-elect east in 1861. Cities along the route that hold funeral processions include Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago.April 26, 1865.John Wilkes Booth and accomplice David Herold are caught by the military at a farm near Bowling Green, Virginia. Although Herold surrenders, Booth is shot and killed.May 4, 1865.Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in a tomb at Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery.May 10, 1865.An army military commission is convened to try Mrs. Mary Surratt, David Herold, Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler, Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel Arnold, and Dr. Samuel Mudd for their parts in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. Surratt, Herold, Paine, and Atzerodt will eventually be given the death penalty, while the remaining defendants are sentenced to imprisonment.July 7, 1865.Four co-conspirators, Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt, were executed by hanging at the Old Penitentiary, on the site of present-day Fort McNair, for their part in the assassination conspiracy.
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