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.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. on the evening of April 14, 1865. He died the next day.

A lock of President Abraham Lincoln's hair attached to a bloodstained telegram are up for auction this month, with the lot expected to sell for big money. The auction, which is being handled by RR ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In "The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President - and Why It Failed," Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch provide a remarkable and often riveting account of an alleged plot ...

Helena Iles Papaioannou, a researcher with the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project has discovered an original copy of Dr. Leale's clinical 21-page report from the night Lincoln was shot.

Not bad for an honest man born in a Kentucky log cabin. The certificate lists the date of Lincoln’s assassination, April 14, 1865, and his survivors: wife, Mary, and children, Robert and Thomas.

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… ...