The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; ...

Plotz got to see Lincoln's writing on the document during a recent tour of the National Archives vaults (hence the post.) As Plotz writes: I guess it's not surprising that the author of the Gettysburg ...

“Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after seven.” Ten words that changed the course of history. It was written on a telegram on April 15, 1865 — the morning after Lincoln was shot by John ...

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April 14, 1865, got off to a far better start than most days in the White House Mary Todd Lincoln. Sadly, it would be an all-too-brief moment of happiness before the day ended in unimaginable fashion, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The telegram, which notified the public of the President's death, goes up for sale Monday, the anniversary of that date. "Abraham ...