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    On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American...
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    with the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and these have become a piece of American folklore. The list of coincidences...
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    statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American...
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    Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer and businessman. The eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, he...
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    After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, a three-week series of events was held to mourn the death and memorialize the life of the 16th...
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    Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the first lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband...
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    The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their...
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    his death in 1865, Abraham Lincoln has been an iconic American figure depicted, usually favorably or heroically, in many forms. Lincoln has often been portrayed...
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    assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were in this box watching a production of...
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  • Manhunt (miniseries) (category Assassination of Abraham Lincoln films)
    Chase for Lincoln's Killer. The series follows Edwin Stanton's search for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Directed...
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    Samuel Mudd (category Lincoln assassination conspirators)
    imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco farmer in Southern Maryland...
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    ghost of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, also known as the White House Ghost, is said to have haunted the White House since Lincoln's assassination in 1865...
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    being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching...
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  • The Conspirator (category Assassination of Abraham Lincoln films)
    film of the American Film Company. The film tells the story of Mary Surratt, the only female conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and...
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    stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent...
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  • Skirmish at Grass Valley (category Battles of the American Civil War)
    with 25 troopers of the 1st California Cavalry Battalion in Grass Valley, California in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On March 15 Brig...
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  • Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address was a speech made by President-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois on February 11, 1861. The speech was...
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  • political docudrama contains events surrounding the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was originally broadcast on National Geographic Channel...
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  • Baltimore Plot (category Assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton...
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    George Atzerodt (category Lincoln assassination conspirators)
    sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, but...
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  • Charles Sabin Taft (category People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, Taft was watching Our American Cousin at...
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    Louis J. Weichmann (category People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    American clerk who was one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution in the trial following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Previously, he had also...
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  • of and topical guide to Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861, until his assassination in...
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  • his assassination. This movie was Griffith's second portrayal of Lincoln's assassination, and the first was in The Birth of a Nation. Abraham Lincoln is...
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    Surratt House Museum (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland)
    Surratt was hanged in 1865 for being a co-conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. It was acquired by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning...
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    Harry Hawk (category People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    remembered as the only performer on stage at Ford's Theatre at the moment Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865. William Henry Hawk was born in Philadelphia...
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    soldier and milliner who killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln on April 26, 1865. Known for his devout religious beliefs and...
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    the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Grossman's uncle, John Wilkes Booth. Grossman was born Edwina Booth on December 9, 1861. Members of the prominent...
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    Our American Cousin (category Assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    the play that U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate...
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    Lafayette C. Baker (category People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    the Union Army during the American Civil War and under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Baker was born in Stafford, New York, on October...
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