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Unknown Dispatch! Extra. Death of the President

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06107.38 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Broadside Date: 15 April 1865 Pagination: 1 p. ; 43 x 11 cm. Order a Copy

Newspaper clipping reports that President Lincoln is dead. Falsely announces that Secretary Seward has also been murdered. Includes information on the plotting of the assassination.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872

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