Dramatic report on Lincoln's assassination... A first report...
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April 15, 1865
CHARLESTOWN ADVERTISER, Massachusetts, April 15, 1865
* First report of Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Page 3 has nice column heads on one of the most notable events of the 19th century: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The top of the third column has: "ASSASSINATION of PRESIDENT LINCOLN ! " "Attempt to Murder Secretary Seward" "Escape Of The Assassins" with a full column of the latest information as received (see). The report begins: "The telegraph brings to us to-day startling intelligence, that fairly chills the blood of every loyal heart. Last night President Lincoln was shot through the head while sitting in a private box at Ford's Theatre, and Secretary Seward's throat was cut as he lay helpless in his bed..." with much more (see). Included are details of the escape of John Wilkes Booth, as well as: "...was found that the President had been shot through the head, above and back of the temporal bone, & that some of the brain was oozing out..." At the end of the report under the head: "Still Later" is the announcement: "Abraham Lincoln died this morning at twenty-two minutes after 7 o'clock." (see).
Perhaps the most intriguing report is the false one which appears at the top of the next column: "THE ASSASSIN BOOTH ARRESTED with a brief item noting: "At this hour, 10 o'clock, the story is spreading like wildfire that Booth has been arrested. Headquarters have information to that effect. He was arrested on the Bladensburg road." Obviously this was false.
All columns on page 3 are black-bordered for the death of Lincoln. Complete in 4 pages, never bound nor trimmed (desired), nice condition.
* First report of Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Page 3 has nice column heads on one of the most notable events of the 19th century: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The top of the third column has: "ASSASSINATION of PRESIDENT LINCOLN ! " "Attempt to Murder Secretary Seward" "Escape Of The Assassins" with a full column of the latest information as received (see). The report begins: "The telegraph brings to us to-day startling intelligence, that fairly chills the blood of every loyal heart. Last night President Lincoln was shot through the head while sitting in a private box at Ford's Theatre, and Secretary Seward's throat was cut as he lay helpless in his bed..." with much more (see). Included are details of the escape of John Wilkes Booth, as well as: "...was found that the President had been shot through the head, above and back of the temporal bone, & that some of the brain was oozing out..." At the end of the report under the head: "Still Later" is the announcement: "Abraham Lincoln died this morning at twenty-two minutes after 7 o'clock." (see).
Perhaps the most intriguing report is the false one which appears at the top of the next column: "THE ASSASSIN BOOTH ARRESTED with a brief item noting: "At this hour, 10 o'clock, the story is spreading like wildfire that Booth has been arrested. Headquarters have information to that effect. He was arrested on the Bladensburg road." Obviously this was false.
All columns on page 3 are black-bordered for the death of Lincoln. Complete in 4 pages, never bound nor trimmed (desired), nice condition.
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