Charges filed against the conspirators...
Item # 708436
May 16, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, May 16, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln Murder
* Trial of the Assassins
* Indictment of the assassins
* Confederate yellow fever plot
Among the front page column heads are: "TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS" "The Charges & Specifications Against the Prisoners" "Davis, Sanders, Tucker, Thompson, and Clay in the Indictment" "They are Charged with Conspiring to Kill Lincoln, Johnson, Seward and Grant" 'The Testimony Taken on the Second Day of the Trial".
This testimony on the trial of the assassins consumes over half of the front page and carries over to page 8 as well. The back page also has: "The Collapse In The West" "The Rebel Governor Brown, of Georgia, A Prisoner" "Jeff. David Expected in Nashville on Thursday Night" "A General Surrender of Rebel Soldiers & Guerrillas" and more.
Eight pages, minor binding slits at the blank spine, nice condition.
Background: This isn't just a newspaper; it is a haunting, first-edition pulse check of a nation in the throes of its greatest existential crisis. Published exactly one month after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this May 16, 1865, issue of the New York Times serves as a grim witness to the birth of modern American history, capturing the high-stakes Military Commission trial as it attempted to link the Confederate leadership directly to the blood in Ford’s Theatre. The "eye-popping" density of the front page—overflowing with the raw, unfiltered testimony of the conspirators—collides with the electrifying news of the Confederacy’s total disintegration, from the capture of defiant governors to the frantic manhunt for the fugitive Jefferson Davis. To hold this eight-page rag-linen relic is to stand in the shoes of a 19th-century New Yorker, feeling the dual shocks of a presidency lost and a rebellion crushed, making it an unrivaled centerpiece for any collection of American Civil War or Lincolniana history.
* Abraham Lincoln Murder
* Trial of the Assassins
* Indictment of the assassins
* Confederate yellow fever plot
Among the front page column heads are: "TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS" "The Charges & Specifications Against the Prisoners" "Davis, Sanders, Tucker, Thompson, and Clay in the Indictment" "They are Charged with Conspiring to Kill Lincoln, Johnson, Seward and Grant" 'The Testimony Taken on the Second Day of the Trial".
This testimony on the trial of the assassins consumes over half of the front page and carries over to page 8 as well. The back page also has: "The Collapse In The West" "The Rebel Governor Brown, of Georgia, A Prisoner" "Jeff. David Expected in Nashville on Thursday Night" "A General Surrender of Rebel Soldiers & Guerrillas" and more.
Eight pages, minor binding slits at the blank spine, nice condition.
Background: This isn't just a newspaper; it is a haunting, first-edition pulse check of a nation in the throes of its greatest existential crisis. Published exactly one month after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this May 16, 1865, issue of the New York Times serves as a grim witness to the birth of modern American history, capturing the high-stakes Military Commission trial as it attempted to link the Confederate leadership directly to the blood in Ford’s Theatre. The "eye-popping" density of the front page—overflowing with the raw, unfiltered testimony of the conspirators—collides with the electrifying news of the Confederacy’s total disintegration, from the capture of defiant governors to the frantic manhunt for the fugitive Jefferson Davis. To hold this eight-page rag-linen relic is to stand in the shoes of a 19th-century New Yorker, feeling the dual shocks of a presidency lost and a rebellion crushed, making it an unrivaled centerpiece for any collection of American Civil War or Lincolniana history.
Category: Yankee
