A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; ...

April 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1817, the oldest, permanent U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the ...

“Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after seven.” Ten words that changed the course of history. It was written on a telegram on April 15, 1865 — the morning after Lincoln was shot by John ...

“Services appropriate to the great calamity which has befallen the nation will be observed at the First Congregational Church to-morrow.” So said the April 15, 1865 Quincy Daily Whig and Republican.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After Lincoln’s assassination, ...

It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln was in an unusual mood: Happy. Giddy. He was a man freed of the heaviest burden any U.S. president had ever been forced to bear. The mighty ...