THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 12, 1936 

* Abraham Lincoln assassination eyewitness 
* Mrs. Harriet Van Pelt interview w/ photo 
* Was 18 years old at Ford's Theater event 

The front page has a one column heading: "A GIRL OF 1865 TELLS OF SEEING LINCOLN SHOT" with subhead and related illustration. More on page 3 and a few related photos on the back page with one showing Harriet Van Pelt, the 88 year old woman who witnessed Lincoln's assassination when she was 18. (see images)
Complete with all 36 pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine. 

Background: This February 12, 1936 edition of The New York Times serves as a rare cultural bridge between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, leveraging the occasion of Lincoln’s Birthday to publish a rare, living link to one of the most transformative tragedies in American history. The primary significance lies in the firsthand testimony of 88-year-old Harriet Van Pelt, who, as an 18-year-old in 1865, witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre—an event that abruptly halted Lincoln's vision for post-Civil War Reconstruction and threw a fractured nation into deep political turmoil. Published seventy-one years after the assassination, this edition captures the twilight era of living Civil War witnesses, offering readers in the Great Depression a poignant moment of historical reflection. The historical value of this specific artifact is exponentially elevated because it is a "rag edition" printed on durable, archive-grade 100% cotton paper rather than fragile wood pulp, perfectly preserving all 36 pages—including the front-page feature, extensive page 3 reporting, and the rare back-page photo section of Van Pelt—in a pristine state that standard newspapers of the 1930s simply could not achieve.