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When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln it was not possible to accord him the privilege of explaining his deed to the ladies and gentlemen of a radio audience.
In Chicago, 14 teams in a six-day bicycle race rode 29 miles in the first hour. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one Tony Chico pedalled a bicycle without stopping for 27 hrs., 25½ min.
William Evans, publisher of the Valley Vigilant, weekly newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was sentenced last week to three months in the county jail, fined $100. His offense: criminal libel of a County Commissioner during a political campaign. Libel convictions are rare in the U. S.
Throughout the war Lincoln danced from one position to another. Want of space prevents the mention of but two notorious instances of his instability. He decided to issue a proclamation of emancipation in July, 1863, but when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed...
That he was shot by John Wilkes Booth because he had hanged a Confederate naval officer, John Y. Beall, "against all civilized rules of warfare."