Shooting of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was seated in a red-upholstered rocking chair at the moment he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. This drawing of the assassination was published by Harper's Weekly in its April 29, 1865 edition. CreditsHarper's Weekly drawing, 29 April 1865. Image, U.S. National Archives. |
Table of Contents
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic