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President is Dead!
- Creator:
- Edwin M. Stanton, War Department
- Location:
- Washington, D. C.
- Origin Date:
- 1865
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 25 5/16 in x 28 3/4 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.2597
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This broadside was an official announcement on April 15, 1865, from Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, of President Abraham Lincoln's death "this morning at 22 minutes after seven o'clock." President Lincoln had been shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth as the president, his wife, and two friends sat in the president's box at Ford's Theatre the night before. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum