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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL Civil War newspaper, the New York Daily Tribune dated April 28, 1865.

Prominent front page headlines and six (6) front page columns with very very long and very very detailed reports on the capture and death of JOHN WILKES BOOTH , the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

This is the BEST display newspaper I have seen on the death of John Wiklkes Booth. Perfect for framing !!!

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of the last major events in the American Civil War , took place on Good Friday , April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests.

Lincoln's assassin , actor and Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth , had also plotted with fellow conspirators, Lewis Powell , to kill William H. Seward (then Secretary of State ) and George Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson . Booth hoped to create chaos and overthrow the Federal government by assassinating Lincoln, Seward, and Johnson. Although Booth succeeded in killing Lincoln, the larger plot failed. Seward was attacked, but recovered from his wounds, and Johnson's would-be assassin fled Washington, D.C. upon losing his nerve.

After murdering President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington,DC, Booth jumped on his horse outside of Ford's and galloped away. Within half an hour he was over the Navy Yard Bridge and out of the city, riding into Maryland. Herold made it across the same bridge less than an hour later and reunited with Booth. After retrieving weapons and supplies previously stored at Surattsville , Herold and Booth went to Samuel A. Mudd , a local doctor who determined that Booth's leg had been broken and put it in a splint . Later Mudd made a pair of crutches for the assassin.

After spending a day at Mudd's house, Booth and Herold hired a local man to guide them to Samuel Cox's house . Cox in turn led them to Thomas Jones, who hid Booth and Herold in a swamp near his house for five days until they could cross the Potomac River .

Capture of Herold and death of Booth

Booth and Herold remained on the run until April 26, when Union soldiers tracked them down to a farm belonging to Richard Garrett. The Garretts had locked Booth and Herold in their barn. Herold surrendered himself after the soldiers arrived, but Booth refused to come out. The soldiers then set fire to the barn. A soldier named Boston Corbett then crept up behind the barn and shot Booth in the neck, paralyzing him. Booth was dragged out on to the steps of the barn. A soldier dribbled water onto his mouth. He then told the soldier "Tell my mother I died for my country." Writhing in agony, he asked a soldier to lift his hands and whispered "Useless...Useless." Booth died on the porch of the Garrett farm two hours after Corbett had shot him.

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