Directory of Assassination Resources

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This category lists pages and sites that tell about the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln died the morning of April 15, 1865, just hours after John Wilkes Booth allegedly shot him in the back of the head at near point-blank range inside Ford's Theatre.

Subcategories

• Booth, John Wilkes

Resources in This Category

• Abraham Lincoln's White House Funeral Sermon

  http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gurley.htm
  Complete text of the sermon delivered at Lincoln's funeral.

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln75.html
  Summarizes events leading up to the assassination, the shooting itself, and the aftermath.

• Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html
  Short illustrated account of the fateful night. From the Library of Congress.

• Flight and Capture of John H. Surratt

  http://www.reformation.org/surratt.html
  Excerpt from a history of the conspiracy published around 1890.

• Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

  http://www.nps.gov/foth/
  Photos and a brief history of the site of the assassination, which is now managed by the National Park Service.

• Lincoln Assassination Report

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/lincoln.html
  Police blotter listing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 11:00 p.m., April 14, 1865. From the National Archives.

• News of Abraham Lincoln's Death

  http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/al/alobit.html
  Official dispatches as published in the New York Times following Lincoln's death.

 

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