Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — LINCOLN ASSASSINATED 55 YEARS AGO TODAY [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN ASSASSINATED 55 YEARS AGO TODAY

Today, April 14, is the fifty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, who carried the country through the most trying days that the nation has ever faced. the assassination of Lincoln occurred about ten o’clock, in the evening as he was witnessing a play at a theatre in Washington. Lincoln’s assassin was John Wilkes Booth, an anarchist of the most pronounced type. Booth was shot a short time after committing tire act when he barricaded himself in a barn and attempted to fight off the posse that had surrounded him.