Rufus, however, knows that Lincoln’s assassination sparks decades of Reconstruction-era infighting and increasingly fraught racial tensions, including horrific lynchings in the South.

They’re making an honest buck from honest Abe. Two front-row balcony tickets from the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated inside Ford’s Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500 ...

In this March 17, 2015, file photo, John Wilkes Booth's pistol used to kill President Abraham Lincoln is displayed at a new exhibit at the Ford's Center for Education and Leadership.

This month marks the 155th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth. While most people know the bare facts of what happened, a number of unsolved ...

Lincoln's assassination plunged a nation already on edge into uncertainty. Millions mourned as his body was taken back home to Illinois for burial. They lined the tracks to pay their respects.

Funeral of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, Illinois. The elaborate hearse in which the President's body travelled through the country in 1865.

“It was with the assassination that the myth of Abraham Lincoln was born,” added James L. Swanson, author of "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer." ...

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, was not the first attempt on an American president’s life. Thirty years earlier, on Jan. 30, 1835, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol ...

August 28, 2020 / 3:05 PM EDT / CBS Boston BOSTON (AP) - This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale.

On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife went to see a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. At 10:15 p.m., John Wilkes ...

By Robert J. Hutchinson This month marks the 155th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth. While most people know the bare facts of what happened, a numb… ...