On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

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_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

During the manhunt he carried a small bound pocket ... mourning ribbon still hangs from the bottom rim. Cade Martin Abraham Lincoln’s final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard ...

Americans followed the story of the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ... and a partner founded the retail empire Abraham & Straus) reverently placed a Lincoln bust in his shop window, one of many ...

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Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the 26-year-old actor ...