• The presidential box is arranged April 3, 2015 identically to the way it was the night US President Abraham Lincoln was shot through this doorway at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
    The presidential box is arranged April 3, 2015 identically to the way it was the night US President Abraham Lincoln was shot through this doorway at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
  • Abraham Lincoln’s iconic silk top hat, which he was wearing the night he was assassinated, is part of the museum display at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, March 20 2015. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
    Abraham Lincoln’s iconic silk top hat, which he was wearing the night he was assassinated, is part of the museum display at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, March 20 2015. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
  • Crowds are seen gathered along Pennsylvania Avenue to view the funeral procession of US President Abraham Lincoln in this archive image from the Library of Congress taken in Washington April 19, 1865. President Lincoln’s funeral was held at the White House and his body was moved to the US Capitol where he lay in state before travelling by rail to Springfield, Illinois, where he was buried. Library of Congress / Reuters
    Crowds are seen gathered along Pennsylvania Avenue to view the funeral procession of US President Abraham Lincoln in this archive image from the Library of Congress taken in Washington April 19, 1865. President Lincoln’s funeral was held at the White House and his body was moved to the US Capitol where he lay in state before travelling by rail to Springfield, Illinois, where he was buried. Library of Congress / Reuters
  • An educational prop showing the reward offered for John Wilkes Booth is seen after Abraham Lincoln presenter and historian John Voehl gave a history lecture to students at Vandenberg Middle School at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California March 27, 2015. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
    An educational prop showing the reward offered for John Wilkes Booth is seen after Abraham Lincoln presenter and historian John Voehl gave a history lecture to students at Vandenberg Middle School at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California March 27, 2015. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
  • US President Abraham Lincoln is seen in a seated portrait taken by Anthony Berger in Washington February 9, 1864, in an archive image from the Library of Congress. The image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the US five dollar bill, according to the Library of Congress. Library of Congress / Anthony Berger / Reuters
    US President Abraham Lincoln is seen in a seated portrait taken by Anthony Berger in Washington February 9, 1864, in an archive image from the Library of Congress. The image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the US five dollar bill, according to the Library of Congress. Library of Congress / Anthony Berger / Reuters
  • US President Abraham Lincoln’s statue at the Lincoln Memorial is seen in Washington March 27, 2015. The 170 ton, 19 foot high statue, formed from 28 blocks of Georgia marble, was sculpted by Daniel Chester French and dedicated in 1922. Gary Cameron / Reuters
    US President Abraham Lincoln’s statue at the Lincoln Memorial is seen in Washington March 27, 2015. The 170 ton, 19 foot high statue, formed from 28 blocks of Georgia marble, was sculpted by Daniel Chester French and dedicated in 1922. Gary Cameron / Reuters

150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination — in pictures

Olga Camacho

April 15, 2015

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On April 15 the United States commemorates the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Events will include the re-enactment of his funeral in Springfield, Illinois, as well as talks and plays at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, where Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth shot him in 1865.

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