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The Assassination of President Lincoln


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Reward poster for Lincoln's murder.

The War Department issued this "wanted" poster right after Lincoln's shooting

CREDIT: United States War Department. "War department, Washington. April 20, 1865. $100,000 reward! The murder of our late beloved president, Abraham Lincoln is still at large." 1865. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, Library of Congress.



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