DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1865

• Trial of the conspirators - assassins
• re. Abraham Lincoln's assassination

Page 2 has column heads: "THE CONSPIRACY" "Trial Of The Accused" "Proceedings on Friday, June 16" with much verbatim testimony.
Page 3 has some reports on the closing events of the Civil War including: "From Chattanooga" "Cotton Coming North" "Real Estate Selling at Low Rates" "From New Orleans" "Kirby Smith Gone to Mexico" "Brownsville Occupied by Our Troops" and more.
Great to have this content in a newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, large folio size, minor binding indents at the blank spine, very nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Background: The trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators in June 1865 generated a historically rare level of immediate, granular public reporting, made exceptional by the trial's unique status as a high-stakes military commission held behind closed penitentiary walls. Period press coverage—most notably in major outlets like The New York Times, the New York Herald, and local D.C. dailies—was characterized by verbatim transcriptions of witness testimony recorded in shorthand by official stenographer Benn Pitman alongside vivid, daily sensationalized color commentaries on the defendants' psychological states and physical demeanors. Detailed court reporting from mid-June, such as the June 16 proceedings, offered rare structural insights into the military tribunal's inner workings—documenting minor procedural hiccups like Colonel Tompkins' sudden illness, official readings of Canadian bank records linked to Confederate secret-service agent Jacob Thompson, and military log entries by commissioners like August Kautz—providing historians with a remarkably raw, unvarnished day-by-day record of mid-19th-century American military justice and wartime press access that remains an irreplaceable primary archive.