[Presidential] [Lincoln, Abraham] "Awful Event. President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin"

The New-York Times
New York, April 15, 1865. Vol. XIV, No. 4230. Printed newspaper with black mourning borders. Folio. Creasing from when folded; faded inscription at top. Unexamined out of frame.

The first reports of President Lincoln's assassination and the attack on Secretary of State William Seward were made public almost immediately after they occurred, despite the lack of concrete details on what had actually happened. The April 15, 1865 morning edition of The New York Times identified unnamed rebels as the perpetrators behind the crime, and additionally reported that Lincoln had died shortly after midnight. Lincoln was in all likelihood still alive by the time this edition went to press. He died at 7:22 a.m. that morning.

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