Assassination

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• Kids and Teens: School Time: Social Studies: History: By Region: North America: United States: Presidents: Lincoln, Abraham: Assassination  (14)
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• Abraham Lincoln's Assassination and Freemasonry - Explores the involvement of the Freemasons in the assassination; also draws parallels to JFK's murder.
• Abraham Lincoln's White House Funeral Sermon - Complete text of the sermon delivered at Lincoln's funeral.
• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Provides the assassination story with hundreds of organized links to primary sources, photographs, and documents from official US archives.
• Blood on the Moon - Edward Steers discusses his book, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, on Booknotes.org.
• Did Lincoln Deserve to be Assassinated? - An alternative view of Lincoln's Assassination. What were the motives behind the murder? Did Lincoln fit the definition of a tyrant? Did Lincoln preserve the Union at the price of individual liberty?
• Flight and capture of John H. Surratt - Excerpt from Gen. T. M. Harris' book of the 1890s.
• Ford's Theatre National Historic Site - Photos and a brief history of the site of the assassination, which is now managed by the National Park Service.
• Gen. Henry L. Burnett's Memories of the Lincoln Assassination Trial - The text of a talk given by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett, an assistant special judge advocate for the Lincoln Assassination Trial, to the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, NY on his memories of the times and the trial.
• Historical Coincidence - Describes some parallels and coincidences between Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations and other historic coincidences.
• Images of the Civil War - Lincoln's Assassination - Photographs related to the assassination of Lincoln, including a large photograph of the hanging of the four conspirators.
• Lincoln Assassination Report - Police blotter listing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 11:00 p.m., April 14, 1865. National Archives, Records of the Government of the District of Columbia.
• The Lincoln Writings of Charles P.T. Chiniquy - Includes excerpts from Chiniquy's controversial writings that suggest Lincoln's assassination stemmed from a Jesuit plot. Also includes background information on Chiniquy.
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library-assassination - Account of the assassination with contemporary illustrations. From the Library of Congress.
• Surratt House Museum - The home of Mary Surratt, who was executed for her alleged part in the assassination plot.
• Wet With Blood - The Chicago Historical reproduces a classic text that examines the physical evidence of Lincoln's assassination.

• News of Abraham Lincoln's Death - Official dispatches as published in the New York Times following Lincoln's death. (April 16, 1865)
• President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin - First article from the New York Times on the shooting. [PDF] (April 15, 1865)