On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was infamously assassinated ... route in the train, including the president’s eldest living son, Robert. But also onboard was a coffin containing ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s casket ... death. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 150 ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Eisenhower’s request, the train carrying her husband’s casket ... Abraham Lincoln’s was the first, in 1865. With air travel becoming the norm in the 50s and 60s, Eisenhower was the last ...