Significance for the day, but this is on the site of the National Hotel, which is the hotel where booth stayed the night before he committed this horrible crime so you can sort of take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all spots being referenced from the National Hotel to fords theater, to petersons house which is where lincoln was taken after he was shot, right across the street from fords theater, the spot where he ultimately died to the telegraph offices and newspaper row where the ap office and the new york office were to the white house so you can place yourself among all these significant spots a part of the story. The First Edition is the 2 00 a. M. Edition, more or less the regular edition, the morning paper at the time, and it covers essentially its the breaking news, the flash moment of the president s been shot. Interestingly enough, it uses the word assassination already in that paper because at the time, that word
Book, through your favorite bookstore or online book seller. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the museum in washington, d. C. To review an exhibit to mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published in 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the curator of collections here at the museum, and were in our new lincoln exit, president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really tight focus on seven editions of the New York Herald, published in the 18 hours immediately following lincolns assassination, so it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened as people were getting it in this country about the assassination of lincoln. One of the ways we helped people understand sort of not just time, but place, is through this great map we have on the floor in the
Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
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