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Abraham Lincoln Assassination - http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln.html
Information compiled by an American history teacher includes a summary for students, an eyewitness account, the military commission, conspiracy theories, John Wilkes Booth, contemporaneous photographs and texts.

Abraham Lincoln's Assassination and Freemasonry - http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/lincoln.html
Explores the involvement of the Freemasons in the assassination; also draws parallels to JFK's murder.

Abraham Lincoln's White House Funeral Sermon - http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gurley.htm
Complete text of the sermon delivered at Lincoln's funeral.

Blood on the Moon - http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1663
Edward Steers discusses his book, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, on Booknotes.org.

Did Lincoln Deserve to be Assassinated? - http://members.tripod.com/RobHelmer/LINC.htm
An alternative view of Lincoln's Assassination. What were the motives behind the murder? Did Lincoln fit the definition of a tyrant? Did Lincoln preserve the Union at the price of individual liberty?

Flight and capture of John H. Surratt - http://www.reformation.org/surratt.html
Excerpt from Gen. T. M. Harris' book of the 1890s.

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site - http://www.nps.gov/foth/
Photos and a brief history of the site of the assassination, which is now managed by the National Park Service.

Gen. Henry L. Burnett's Memories of the Lincoln Assassination Trial - http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/burnett/lincoln.htm
The text of a talk given by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett, an assistant special judge advocate for the Lincoln Assassination Trial, to the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, NY on his memories of the times and the trial.

Images of the Civil War - Lincoln's Assassination - http://www.treasurenet.com/images/civilwar/civil029.html
Photographs related to the assassination of Lincoln, including a large photograph of the hanging of the four conspirators.

Lincoln Assassination Report - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/lincoln.html
Police blotter listing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 11:00 p.m., April 14, 1865. National Archives, Records of the Government of the District of Columbia.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library-assassination - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html
Account of the assassination with contemporary illustrations. From the Library of Congress.

News of Abraham Lincoln's Death - http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/al/alobit.html
Official dispatches as published in the New York Times following Lincoln's death.

Newseum - Manhunt: Chasing Lincoln's Killer - http://www.newseum.org/exhibits_th/manhunt/
Online exhibit explores how new developments in journalism and technology came together in the news coverage of Abraham Lincoln's death and the hunt for his killer. Includes background material and interviews.

President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E0D91F30EE34BC4D52DFB266838E679FDE
First article from the New York Times on the shooting.

Surratt House Museum - http://www.surratt.org/
The home of Mary Surratt, who was executed for her alleged part in the assassination plot.

Wet With Blood - http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblood/
The Chicago Historical reproduces a classic text that examines the physical evidence of Lincoln's assassination.

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