Forest University Professors david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. Each weaker, american artifacts takes to you museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the newseum in washington, d. C. To mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published on april 15th and 14th, 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the cure rater and direct or collections here at the museum and we are in our new exhibit called president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really sort of tight focus on seven additions of the New York Herald, which was the most widely circulated newspaper of the time that were 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
Times. I found i admired raymond a great deal. Greely called him the little villain, a nickname that stuck. Cartoonists portrayed him as a very little fellow with a big beard. But he stuck to and it made the New York Times he committed the New York Times to the same idea of all the news that is fit to print that it still practices today, albeit under a different ownership. How does he fit into this scenario. Bennett was the first on the scene and was the oldest and born in scotland, before the turn of the 19th century, fell in love with newspapers, had a facility for language so he got jobs as a translator of foreign news, and then ultimately wrote so many good things about the Andrew Jackson administration that he expected that jackson and jacksons successor, martin van buren, would find a way to get him money to start his own newspaper. The administration didnt like it. Vaguely foreign, a little smarmy and from that day on, bennett is more independent than practically any newspaper e
The university of pennsylvania, and is the author of six books including popular print and popular medicine, Health Advice in early american almanacs, then the living live con. President James Buchanan and the crisis of national leadership. Lincoln Campaign Biographies is his most recent book, and his currently editing a book called annotated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone, can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides of several campaigns of lincolns biographies of the 1860s. I need to talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into context. Theres two points that i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of politics, many newspapers were aligned with the Political Party, newspapers and their editors were openly partisan, this is a trefbtd that began in the 1920s, when newspapers became the favorite prichblt media. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing
So they were around the culture at the turn of the century that was of those cities. Urban. And tulsa, unlike some of the other oil towns, is really influenced by the east and the midwest, and particularly the urban east and the urban midwest because of the culture that these oilmen brought. Most of them were selfmade, do not get me wrong. They did not come here with a Million Dollar bankroll. Some did. They brought with them the culture of music and theater and opera and architecture. Early prominent ones, the building directly behind us, the off colored Stone Building it is a Stone Building. It is a handsome building. The character of harry sinclair, as we know, part of the teapot dome scandal in 1922, when Warren Harding was present. Harry later after five years of prosecution served six months in a washington, d. C. Jail for corruption. But unusually from his jail cell, he still conducted business in tulsa. Earlier ones were joss galston known as the rubber band millionaire. He mad
Building at the epicenter of things. The museum is on the site of the National Hotel which is the hotel where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. You can take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all the different spots that are being restaurants, from the National Hotel, the fords theater, the hotel where lincoln was taken after he was shot. Its right across street. It is the spot where he ultimately died, to the telegraph offices in newspaper row where the New York Herald office work, to the white house. You can place your self among all these significant spots that are part of this story. The First Edition is the regular edition of the morning paper at that time. Essentially it is the breaking news, the flash moment of the president has been shot. Interestingly enough it uses the word assassination already in that paper, because at the time, that word meant a surprise, violent attack on someone that didnt neces