Display looks at Lincoln assissination

The historic journal, now faded and in very fragile condition, was purchased originally on the day of publication by Bob's grandfather, Granville B. Beveridge, an attorney in Auburn, Neb., who served in the Union Army in the Civil War. The NY Herald sold for four cents at the time of publication.

Other related items in the display include: one volume of a five-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written by Albert J. Beveridge (Bob's great uncle and former Ohio Senator); a Lincoln bicentennial publication titled "Lincoln in his Own Words"; and other interesting Lincoln paraphernalia.

The assassination story, comprised mainly of dispatches from the War Department, ran under nine different one-column headlines. The main story, a dispatch from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, is supplemented by later dispatches from Washington that tell of the late developments including: the identification of the assassin, John Wilkes Booth; the death of the President; and the condition of Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, who was seriously injured in a separate attack the same night.

The main story says, in part: "The pistol ball entered the back of the President's head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insensible every since it was inflicted and is now dying."

Stanton's dispatch was transmitted to New York from Washington at 1:30 a.m. President Lincoln was pronounced dead at 7:22 the same morning.

The display will be available for viewing through Feb. 26.