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Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By JOHN O'CONNOR The Associated Press,Updated May 21, 2025, 8:21 p.m.
A Tamaqua barber possibly knew of the plot to kill President Abraham Lincoln, and did everything in his power to prevent it.
Abraham Lincoln owned a drum made in Mass. — but where is it? And the earliest known sample of the 16th president's handwriting, from a notebook in 1824, fetched $521,200.
One of the thrills of "Manhunt" is watching the wheels turn inside the actor's character's head, and how those wheels then determine what appears on his face: consternation, resignation, outrage.
Dessner found the biggest challenge to be scoring Lincoln’s assassination, which is the opening scene of the series. “I went through 30 revisions,” he says.
The foundation purchased a 1,540-item assemblage in 2007 from Louise Taper for the fledgling Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, which opened in 2005 in the city where he established ...
Abraham Lincoln owned a drum made in Mass. — but where is it? And the earliest known sample of the 16th president's handwriting, from a notebook in 1824, fetched $521,200.
The gloves were the top-selling items, bringing in $1.52 million including the premium. One of two handkerchiefs Lincoln had with him April 14, 1865, the night he was shot, went for $826,000. A ...