Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves sold
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A massive Abraham Lincoln auction, the most extensive sale of items from America's 16th president, yielded big prices Wednesday in Chicago. Several of the top-selling pieces in the 144-item auction were from Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865.
In the clear waters off Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park sits a massive brick fort where one doctor flipped his story from villain to hero. Samuel Mudd, jailed for helping Lincoln’s killer, became Fort Jefferson’s unlikely savior during a deadly fever outbreak. Here’s what happened.
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NewsNation on MSNLive: JFK assassination hearing, witnesses accuse CIA of obstructionThe House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Witnesses at the hearing included Dr. Don Curtis, who was one of the first to treat Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas,