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Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated [81] May 16, 1861 [82] Mathew Brady [83] Carte-de-visite printed from one frame of the lost original multiple-image stereographic negative [84] Library of Congress President Abraham Lincoln, seated next to small table, in a reflective pose, May 16, 1861, with his hat visible on the table. [85 ...
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
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Abraham Lincoln, an 1869 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy Lincoln in February 1865, two months prior to his assassination. As a young man Lincoln was a religious skeptic. [349] He was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it. [350] He was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others ...
The previous evening, a man who wanted to be a hero for a lost cause had cowardly and callously shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 10 p.m.
The final chapter is an account of Lincoln's assassination and death. The photographs and drawings that fill the book are drawn from many sources, including the Abraham Lincoln Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and other historical archives. Many of the photographs are portraits of Lincoln. Freedman uses them as a focal point in his narrative.
By Christian Nilsson, HuffPost Live producer Wednesday is the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, and while most Americans know the history of his assassination, many aren ...
Lincoln’s wife, Mary, is pictured in the center, lying across the president’s body. His son Robert stands in the foreground to the right of the bed. Vice President Andrew Johnson is seated at the far left. Reason High quality and encyclopedic Articles in which this image appears Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and Assassination of Abraham Lincoln