Murder & Memory
Jefferson Banner—Extra. Jefferson, Wisconsin, April 15, 1865. Broadside. |
Issued the day President Lincoln died, this broadside published by a Wisconsin newspaper provides up-to-date reports on the assassination. The reports of Secretary of State Seward’s death as a result of an assassination attempt and John Wilkes Booth’s arrest were inaccurate, however. Seward survived his attack and Booth was shot and killed resisting arrest on 26 April. *AB85.L6384.Y865j Purchased in 2008 on the Bayard Livingston & Kate Gray Kilgour Fund. |
