NEW YORK HERALD, June 11, 1865 

* Abraham Lincoln Assassination 
* Edwin not John Wilkes Booth ?

 The front page has: "The Trial - The Evidence on Saturday" being that of the Lincoln conspirators. One bit notes: "...after the assassination of the President I heard...that it was Edwin Booth who assassinated the President..." with more
Page 2 has much on Reconstruction including: "The Blacks" "His Future Condition in the South" "The Southern Press On His Prospects" "The Suffrage Question" "Objects of the National Freedman's Relief Association" "The Maryland Apprentice System".
Eight pages, nice condition.

Background: This historical mix-up and the poignant connection between the Booth brothers underscore the deep ideological fractures of the American Civil War, where political polarization could tear a single family completely apart. The initial rumor implicating Edwin highlights the mass confusion of a nation in shock, but the reality of his innocence—contrasted against his brother John Wilkes's infamy—creates one of the most striking ironies in American history. While John Wilkes shattered the presidency and plunged the nation into mourning, Edwin had unknowingly preserved a piece of Lincoln’s legacy months prior by saving the life of the President's son, Robert Todd Lincoln. Ultimately, this duality serves as a powerful microcosm of the war itself: a tragic conflict that pitted brother against brother, leaving one side of the family to destroy the union while the other quietly fought to sustain it.