"The Murder of President Lincoln."
Report published a year after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that John Wilkes Booth was not the real murderer of the president. It also speculates that Booth was not killed in Virginia but rather fled the country after the event. The piece, printed in The Selma Morning Times on Apr...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Report published a year after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that John Wilkes Booth was not the real murderer of the president. It also speculates that Booth was not killed in Virginia but rather fled the country after the event. The piece, printed in The Selma Morning Times on April 15, 1866, was originally submitted by a Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune. |
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