NEW YORK TIMES, June 29, 1865  

* Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the conspirators - assassins

Nearly two columns of the front page are taken up with: "THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS" "Review of the Testimony by Special Judge-Advocate Bingham" "The Law of Evidences as to Conspiracies" "Parties Need Not by Present to be Implicated" "The Trial Concluded At Last" and more.
Items within include: "The Homeward March" on the soldiers returning from the fields of battle; "Out-Door Sports - Base Ball", a lengthy report including the box score.
Eight pages, very nice condition.

Background: This issue of the New York Times from June 29, 1865, offers a vivid snapshot of the historic conclusion of the seven-week trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators. The primary focus of the nearly two full columns is Special Judge-Advocate John A. Bingham’s exhaustive three-day closing argument for the prosecution, which established critical legal precedents regarding federal conspiracy law. Bingham argued that under the laws of evidence, co-conspirators do not need to be physically present at the scene of the crime to be held fully liable for the overt acts committed in furtherance of the plot—a crucial legal doctrine used to convict non-present accomplices such as Mary Surratt, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and Samuel Arnold. Framing the plot not merely as a murder but as an act of treasonous war, Bingham’s argument laid the legal groundwork that led directly to the military tribunal’s guilty verdicts the following day, culminating in the execution of four conspirators on July 7, 1865.