150 years ago today, Good Friday, April 14, 1865…
Via NY Post:
150 years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln was enjoying a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, when an assassin shot him at point-blank range in the back of the head. He died the next morning, the day this edition of The New York Post was published. At that time, The Post — then midway through its 64th year of operation — was printed for evening distribution and was called The Evening Post.
Today, The Post republishes, word-for-word, its coverage of President Lincoln’s assassination, first printed the day he died in a first-floor bedroom at a boarding house across the street from the theater where the fatal shot was fired.
A prominent stage actor, John Wilkes Booth, armed with a Philadelphia Derringer pistol, fired the shot.
Lincoln died less than 91⁄2 hours later — at 7:22 a.m. on April 15. He was 56 years of age.
