[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]
New York Tribune dated April 18th, 1865. New York: Tuesday, 18 April 1865. Printed newspaper in six columns, the entire front sheet devoted to the assassination. The visible sheet 20 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (50.5 x 38 cm); matted and framed. Usual folds which are lightly toned, a small old ownership label in upper margin, a few minor handling creases and indentations, unexamined out of frame.

Newspaper dating from the first days after the assassination while the nation reeled. The first column lists the headlines: "Our National Loss/Secretary Seward Better/His Son Conscious/Preparations for the Funeral..."