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Trial of the Lincoln conspirators, from the city where it happened...
Trial of the Lincoln conspirators, from the city where it happened...
Item # 690707
May 31, 1865
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the assassins - traitors
All of page 1 and most of page 2 are taken up with: "THE CONSPIRACY" "Trial Of The Accused" "Saturday's Proceedings Continued" with a great wealth of verbatim testimony.
Page 3 has various end-of-war reports.
Great to have this content in a newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, large folio size, minor tears at the margins. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
AI notes: The 1865 trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators was a military tribunal held after President Abraham Lincoln’s murder by John Wilkes Booth. Eight people were tried for their roles in the broader conspiracy to kill Lincoln and other Union leaders. Four—Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt—were hanged, while the others received prison sentences. The trial was controversial, particularly due to its use of a military court instead of a civilian one, and the execution of Surratt, the first woman executed by the U.S. government. It raised lasting questions about justice, civil rights, and the limits of wartime authority.
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