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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1940
Page
2
Readable fragments describe pictures of a martyrd dissident and Civil War era figures. Edward O Hough found an unopened link his son and the images are published with courtesy of Fred Heck Gillespie author of Frails and Shrines of Abraham Lincoln.
Fragmentary record notes a gathering with nearly 30 friends in attendance. Mentions Boston and a person named Thomas as president, but details and date are unreadable.
Eyewitness account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington during a performance of Our American Cousin. John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln as Major Rathbone fights the intruder, chaos erupts, and the president dies the next morning at 7 22. The piece covers the immediate aftermath, the funeral procession, and national mourning.
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