Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1915 — LINCOIN ASSASSINATED FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY [ARTICLE]

LINCOIN ASSASSINATED FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Greatest American Shot in Ford Theatre, Washington, and Died the Following Morning. It was fifty years ago this evening, April 14, 1865, that Abraham Lincoln was shot by James Wilkes Booth while occupying a box in the old Ford theatre in Washington, D. C. , The event is solemnized in the United States today by having all the flags thrat are officially displayed at half mast. John O’Connor has not only brought the attention of the public to the deed that stirred the entire world a half century ago by running Old Glory up half way on his tall flag pole, but also by die* playing in a window at the postoffice a copy of the New York Herald of April 15th, 1865, giving an account of the assassination. The assassin was an actor but was not a part of the company that was playing at the time. He came from a barroom near the theatre and entered the box from the rear. Booth was pursued and killed a few days later in a bam in Virginia. A plot for the assassination of others was discovered and several of the conspirators were convicted. Some were hung and others sentenced to life imprisonment.