Swanson. Of course, Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until he was assassinated in 1865. He was murdered by John Wilkes Booth a production of Our American ...

Geri Roth, a substitute teacher from North Carolina, was unaware she’d been chowing down on egg rolls in the same place conspirators planned Abraham Lincoln ... US president to be assassinated.

An actor named John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln while he watched a performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. on the evening ...

Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...

Targeting the President, vice president and secretary ... Steers is author of “Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.” ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

The opera glasses, since engraved, were supposedly those used by Mary Todd Lincoln on the night of her husband Abraham Lincoln's assassination A pair of opera glasses reportedly used by former US ...

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... doubles back and crosses the Mason-Dixon Line again. The site of the president’s assassination has been restored at Ford’s Theatre.

Other items up for auction include the American flag that covered Abraham Lincoln’s coffin following his assassination.