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The Truth and Removal [assassination of Garfield]

Signed only weeks before he was hanged for the assassination of President Garfield. The title refers to the "removal" of Garfield from the presidency as part of a cosmic belief system which Guiteau explains in his book. Inscribed to Miss Maggie...

GLC06095

Dispatch! Extra. Death of the President

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.

GLC06107.38

Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (April 17, 1865)]

Announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln on page four. Also includes a front page article entitled "feeling of the people of the north toward the south."
The Whig was the first newspaper in the South to print the news of the...

GLC06107.27

Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 16 (April 21, 1865)]

Inlcudes news on the raising of the flag at Fort Sumter and surrender of Gen. Johnston in North Carolina. Also contains news concerning the arrest of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Prints a letter from Edwin Booth concerning the...

GLC06107.28

Sixth corps. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (May 3, 1865)]

News of Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. Also includes an article on opening trade with the south once all rebels have been overthrown, and the text of the "President's favorite poem."

GLC06107.34